When a large conifer blew over on a property near the bottom of a gentle north-facing slope in Behagullane, County Cork, it exposed a semicircle of heat-shattered stone and charcoal-rich soil. The feature had been marked simply as a "well" on the 25-inch OS map, but what the uprooted roots pulled into the light was something considerably older and more unusual.

The site is a fulacht fia, or fulacht fiadh, a type of prehistoric cooking place found in great numbers across Ireland. The typical arrangement involves a trough filled with water, which was brought to the boil by heating stones in a nearby fire and dropping them in. The shattered, fire-cracked stone that accumulates from this repeated process, mixed with dark charcoal-laden soil, forms the distinctive horseshoe-shaped mound that survives to this day. At Behagullane, the exposed portion measures roughly six metres east to west and two metres north to south, though further remains lie concealed beneath collapsed timber and encroaching bushes to the south. The site sits on the south side of a small public road, extending into both a garden and an animal paddock belonging to a nearby dwelling house. Roughly thirty metres to the east stands a separate prehistoric monument, a standing stone recorded as CO084-081, the proximity of which hints that this small patch of Cork countryside held some significance across a long stretch of prehistory.