In a pasture at Park in County Kerry, a fulacht fia has effectively vanished from the surface. A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone left behind after repeated cycles of heating rocks and dropping them into water-filled troughs. Here, there are no visible remains whatsoever, and at the time the site was inspected, the field was undergoing deep drainage works, which had almost certainly done further damage to whatever might have survived beneath the grass.

What makes the location quietly interesting is the company it keeps. Roughly 85 metres to the north-west lies a burnt spread, a scatter of fire-reddened and shattered stone that suggests prehistoric activity of a similar kind, while about 90 metres to the west-south-west there is a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically associated with early medieval settlement and used for storage or refuge. The clustering of these features hints at a landscape that was, over a long stretch of prehistory and into the early medieval period, fairly well used. The fulacht fia itself may be gone from view, but the ground around it still carries the faint signatures of those successive occupations.