This one in Sleveen, County Kilkenny, is quietly notable for what does not. A fulacht fia, the term for a type of prehistoric cooking or processing site typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and fire-cracked stones beside a water source, was recorded here at some point during the 1970s by the National Museum of Ireland. The location fits the pattern closely: the site sits near a spring well, just off the brow of a north-south ridge, exactly the kind of sheltered, water-adjacent spot where these features tend to cluster across the Irish landscape.

When a field visit was carried out in August 1987, the monument could no longer be found. The field had been tilled in the intervening years, and the characteristic mound of scorched stone that would have marked the site had been ploughed flat, leaving nothing visible at ground level. It is a small but telling story about how Ireland's prehistoric record disappears not through dramatic destruction but through the ordinary rhythms of agriculture. Thousands of fulachtaí fia survive across the country, dating broadly to the Bronze Age, but the Sleveen example exists now mainly as an absence, preserved only in the written record of the 1970s survey that first noted it.