Somewhere beneath a gently sloping field of improved pasture in Kilmoney, Co. Kildare, lies what remains of a Bronze Age cooking place, now so thoroughly absorbed into the agricultural landscape that nothing of it can be seen from the surface. It is, in the most literal sense, a site that has been farmed out of existence.

A fulacht fia is a type of ancient outdoor cooking site found widely across Ireland, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone beside a trough, into which water was heated by dropping in stones that had been brought to high temperature in a nearby fire. This particular example was one of four closely associated sites in the same area, described in 1957 as "four ancient cooking sites", all of which had been ploughed out during land reclamation. The clustering of four such features in close proximity is itself notable; fulachta fia are often found in groups, but losing all four to the same episode of clearance gives the loss a certain weight. By the time the site was formally recorded, the physical evidence had already gone, leaving only the documentary note that something had once been there.