That refusal, recorded in 1937, is itself part of what makes this quiet feature of the landscape worth knowing about. The mound measures roughly ten metres north to south, six metres east to west, and stands nearly a metre high, its edges scattered with large stones. It sits in rough grazing ground, overgrown now, and easy to miss entirely.

The mound is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in great numbers across Ireland, typically dating from the Bronze Age. The general principle behind them is straightforward: stones were heated in a fire and dropped into a water-filled trough, bringing the water to a boil for cooking. The discarded, fire-cracked stones accumulated over time into the horseshoe-shaped or oval mounds that survive today. What makes the Lackdotia example particularly interesting is a detail noted by a recorder named Broker in 1937, who observed that local men had declined to remove the mound even when it stood in the way of widening the river, known in Irish as the Abha Bhan. Whether that reluctance came from folk reverence, practical stubbornness, or something harder to name, the mound survived intact because of it.