During soil stripping at Killoran, archaeologists uncovered a burnt pit, an oval-shaped cut in the ground measuring roughly two and a half metres long, one and a half metres wide, and about forty centimetres deep, whose reddened sides make clear that burning had taken place within the pit itself rather than elsewhere.

The pit's interior told a layered story. Alternating deposits of clayey silt and charcoal suggest repeated or sustained burning episodes over time, though the precise purpose remains, as with so many such features, a matter of interpretation. Burnt pits of this kind are reasonably common in the Irish archaeological record and are often associated with fulachta fiadh, the enigmatic scorched-mound sites linked to cooking, bathing, or industrial processes, though this particular feature was recorded simply as a burnt pit without a broader mound context. The discovery was documented by Stevens in 2000 as part of the Killoran excavation series.