At Poulnalour in County Clare, somewhere beneath a tangle of hazel and blackthorn on generally level ground, there may or may not be a fulacht fia, one of the low, horseshoe-shaped mounds of burnt and shattered stone that turn up in their thousands across the Irish countryside, thought to represent ancient outdoor cooking or industrial sites dating back as far as the Bronze Age.

The site was added to the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996, drawing on a map annotation made by a Tom Coffey and filed in 1994. That is, in essence, the full extent of the evidence: a note on a map, transferred into an official register. When someone went to look for it in 1999, they found nothing they could confidently identify. The scrubby vegetation may have obscured whatever remains exist at ground level, or the original annotation may have been imprecise, or the feature may simply have been too slight to distinguish without excavation. The record sits open, unresolved.