Within a stretch of roughly 215 metres of North Cork pasture near a stream at Gooseberryhill, six fulachtaí fia once sat in close proximity to one another, a clustering that quietly suggests something more than casual or occasional use. A fulacht fia, sometimes called a burnt mound, is a prehistoric cooking site, typically a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal-dark soil built up over repeated use. Hot stones were dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, and the shattered, heat-spent stones were piled to the side. That process, repeated across generations, is what creates the mounds archaeologists find today near streams and wet ground across Ireland.

The site at Gooseberryhill was still visible enough to be mapped as a mound on the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet of 1936, which means it survived well into living memory. Local information suggests it was levelled around 1976, the kind of quiet erasure that happened to thousands of such sites when land was cleared or improved. What remains is subtle: dark soil, brittle heat-shattered stones, and an area of stunted vegetation that marks the ground where the mound once stood. The five companion sites survive nearby, spaced at intervals from roughly 30 metres to just over 200 metres to the north and north-east, each presumably sited in relation to the same stream running along the southern edge of the field.