Sometime around the 1960s, a plough went through a low mound of shattered stone on the western bank of the Tullynascally stream, and one of Kerry's ancient cooking sites was erased from the landscape. Locally, people knew the place simply as a cooking place, which is a reasonably accurate description of what a fulacht fia actually was. These prehistoric monuments, found in their thousands across Ireland, are thought to have functioned as outdoor cooking stations. The typical method involved heating stones in a fire, dropping them into a water-filled trough until the water boiled, and then cooking meat in the hot water. The shattered, fire-cracked stones were discarded into a horseshoe-shaped mound beside the trough, and it is precisely those characteristic mounds of burnt and broken stone that survive, or in this case did not.

The site sat on poor, marginal land close to the stream, which is typical. Fulachtaí fia tend to cluster near water sources, as a reliable supply was essential to the whole process. What made this particular loss more significant was its scale: a short distance to the south, in an adjoining townland, two further such sites were levelled at roughly the same time. Three monuments of the same type, gone within what was probably a single decade of agricultural improvement, represent a quiet but considerable subtraction from the archaeological record of the Iveragh Peninsula.