A fulacht fia, one of the thousands of prehistoric cooking sites scattered across the Irish countryside, once registered as a mound on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1934. Today, there is no surface trace whatsoever.

Fulachtaí fia are among the most common field monuments in Ireland, typically appearing as horseshoe-shaped or kidney-shaped mounds of fire-cracked stone and charcoal-rich soil. They are generally interpreted as outdoor cooking sites, where stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. Most date to the Bronze Age, roughly 2000 to 500 BC, though some were in use later. The Curraghagalla example sat roughly ninety metres north-west of a levelled enclosure, a spatial relationship that hints at some broader pattern of activity in the landscape, though the enclosure itself has also been flattened. By the time the 1934 map was made, the mound was still legible enough to be recorded; at some point after that, it was removed or dispersed entirely, likely through agricultural activity.

What remains, in a sense, is only the map. The 1934 Ordnance Survey record preserves the mound's former presence, even as the ground where it stood gives no indication that anything is there at all.