No mound, no hollow, no scatter of stone catches the eye across the pasture. And yet, on the northern side of a stream running through the land, there is recorded a fulacht fia, one of the most common and most quietly mysterious monument types in the Irish archaeological landscape. These are ancient cooking sites, typically Bronze Age in date, where stones were heated in fire and then dropped into water-filled troughs to bring them to the boil. Over repeated use, the cracked and shattered stones accumulated into a horseshoe-shaped mound, which is usually the only thing left to see. Here, even that is gone.

The site at Flemingstown was noted through a personal communication from J. Monk, rather than through any direct physical survey, which may partly explain why no visible surface trace survives or was ever confirmed on the ground. What makes the location quietly interesting is not just the absence of evidence but the proximity of a second fulacht fia recorded approximately thirty metres to the south. Finding two such sites so close together is not unheard of, since fulachta fia often cluster near watercourses, and the stream here would have been essential to their function, but the pairing adds a small layer of curiosity to what is otherwise an unremarkable-looking field. Both sites were captured in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 4, covering North Cork, published in 2000.