This one, sitting in a slight depression on the flood plain of the Mulkear River in County Limerick, is more ambiguous. It was recorded as a fulacht fia, the term used for a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by its characteristic spread of fire-cracked stone and charcoal, the debris left behind when water was boiled by dropping heated stones into a trough. But the excavation raised a question that has not been neatly resolved: was this actually a fulacht fia at all, or something else entirely?

The site came to light not through deliberate archaeological survey but during monitoring of topsoil removal ahead of construction work on the Southern Limerick Ring-Road. That kind of infrastructure project, moving quickly across a landscape, is often where archaeology surfaces under pressure of time. Archaeologist Michael Connolly excavated the site in 2001 under licence number 01E0762, uncovering a shallow burnt spread roughly twelve metres in diameter, composed of heat-shattered stone and charcoal mixed through with boulder clay and topsoil. The difficulty was that the material was heavily disturbed, making it hard to establish whether it was still lying where it had originally been deposited or had been shifted and scattered over time. Adding to the complication, the same burnt material had been used at some point to backfill a number of land drains found across the excavation area, suggesting the deposit had been disturbed and reused long before anyone came to excavate it. Most significantly, small fragments of cremated bone were recovered from within the burnt spread. As Connolly noted in a 2003 publication, this detail raises the possibility that the site served a purpose other than cooking, perhaps something connected with burial or funerary ritual.

The site itself is no longer visible; road construction obliterated the physical remains. What survives is the excavation record, including a plan extract from Connolly's report, and the unresolved interpretive puzzle of those bone fragments. For anyone interested in the archaeology of this stretch of the Mulkear valley, the published record is the primary point of access now. The surrounding flood plain, running beneath what became the Southern Limerick Ring-Road, holds the broader context for a landscape that clearly carried prehistoric activity, even if its precise character at Woodstown remains genuinely uncertain.