There is nothing to see. The lawn, the flower beds, whatever the garden contains, give no hint that an ancient cooking site is recorded beneath them.

A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric burnt mound, found in large numbers across Ireland and typically associated with Bronze Age activity. The usual interpretation is that they were used for boiling water, by heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough. The stones crack and shatter with repeated use, and it is this characteristic spread of fire-cracked stone, often forming a horseshoe-shaped mound around a central pit, that survives in the ground and alerts archaeologists to a site's presence. At Killavarilly, whatever physical remains exist are buried deep enough, or sufficiently disturbed, that no trace is visible at ground level. The site sits within the grounds of a private dwelling house, making it one of those quietly absorbed pieces of prehistory that continues to exist only on record, folded into someone's everyday domestic landscape without their necessarily giving it much thought.