This one in Drishane Beg, County Cork, offers something stranger: the record of a thing that was already gone before anyone thought to look for it properly. A fulacht fia, the term used for a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and shattered stone beside a water source, once occupied a south-facing slope in pastureland here, roughly fifty metres north of a stream. That proximity to water is characteristic; fulachta fiadh are found across Ireland in their thousands, usually close to rivers or marshy ground, where water could be channelled or collected into a trough and heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it. This particular example, however, was levelled before 1999, and by 2005 no visible trace remained.