The fulacht fia at Ceann Droma in County Cork does none of these things. The land has been reclaimed as pasture, and there is no visible surface trace of anything at all. What is recorded here exists almost entirely as local memory.

A fulacht fia, sometimes written fulacht fiadh, is a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone beside a trough or pit. The standard interpretation is that water was boiled by dropping heated stones into the trough, though theories about their use range from communal cooking to bathing or even brewing. They are among the most commonly recorded monument types in the Irish archaeological record, yet many, like this one at Ceann Droma, survive only as soil anomalies or as tradition passed between neighbours. The site here is known not from any upstanding remains but from local information, a phrase that points to the kind of informal, place-specific knowledge that has kept the memory of vanished features alive long after the ground has been levelled and turned over to grazing.