A strip of rough pasture, bordered to the west by a small northward-flowing stream and to the east by a canalised drain, holds a listing as a fulacht fia, one of the burnt mound sites found across Ireland in their thousands, typically dating to the Bronze Age. These sites are usually identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stones and charcoal, the debris of a cooking or heating process that involved repeatedly dropping hot stones into a water-filled trough. Here, though, the ground tells a different story.

The site was entered into the Sites and Monuments Record in 1991 and later carried into the Record of Monuments and Places in 1997, both times on the basis of local information rather than direct observation. When an inspector visited in 1996, no physical evidence of a fulacht fia was visible at ground level. That gap between the local knowledge that prompted the listing and the absence of anything detectable on the surface is not unusual in itself; burnt mounds can be heavily ploughed out, buried under later drainage works, or simply inconspicuous without excavation. What makes this site quietly interesting is precisely that tension: a place officially recorded, mapped, and protected, where the thing being recorded may have vanished entirely, or may yet be waiting a few inches beneath the grass.