This one disappeared in a single season. In the late 1970s, the land at Carhoobeg was deep-ploughed in preparation for tree planting, and whatever had survived of a prehistoric cooking site beside the Laune river was destroyed in the process. No visible trace remains today.

What stood there until then was, by the landowner's account, a horseshoe-shaped mound set in marshy ground, less than two hundred metres south-west of the river and close to a spring. This description fits the classic profile of a fulacht fia, a type of Bronze Age cooking site found in considerable numbers across Ireland, particularly in low-lying or waterlogged ground near a water source. The typical arrangement involved a trough dug into the earth, filled with water, and heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it; the discarded stones accumulated over repeated use into the characteristic curved or horseshoe-shaped mound that tends to be the only visible remnant. The proximity to both the Laune river and a spring at Carhoobeg would have made the location well suited to exactly this kind of repeated, practical use over a long period. The site was recorded as part of a broader archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula in south Kerry, compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996, which documented hundreds of such monuments across a landscape that holds them in unusual density.