It measures roughly 8.8 metres east to west and 5.3 metres north to south, and to the untrained eye it might read as nothing more than a slight irregularity in the ground. But the material beneath that grass covering tells a different story: heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil, the characteristic signature of prehistoric cooking activity.

This is what archaeologists call a burnt mound, and its presence here is not entirely surprising given what lies nearby. A fulacht fia, the more formally recognised term for a type of Bronze Age cooking site, sits approximately 25 metres to the south-west. A fulacht fia typically consists of a trough dug into the ground, filled with water, and heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it; the discarded, shattered stones accumulate over time into a mound, often horseshoe-shaped, beside the trough. The site at Teeveeny appears to represent a related but separately recorded deposit of the same general process, its western edge already clipped by a drainage cut. Such monuments are extraordinarily common across Ireland, with Cork alone holding hundreds of recorded examples, yet each one quietly encodes a moment of repeated, organised activity by people who left almost nothing else behind.