This one offers nothing of the sort. In pasture on the eastern side of a stream near Kilcolman in north County Cork, there is no visible surface trace at all, only the knowledge, passed down through local memory, that burnt material lies somewhere beneath the grass.

What is recorded here is a fulacht fia, a type of site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically dating to the Bronze Age. The term refers to a cooking place, usually identified by a spread or mound of fire-cracked stone and charred material, the accumulated debris of heating stones in a fire and then plunging them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. Thousands of these sites are known, often found near streams or boggy ground where water was easily accessible, which makes the location here, beside a watercourse, entirely typical. What is less typical is the complete absence of any upstanding remains; the burnt material noted by local informants has either been dispersed by centuries of ploughing and pasture management, or simply lies too shallow and spread too thin to register on the surface. A second fulacht fia is recorded roughly 120 metres to the north, suggesting that this corner of the Kilcolman landscape saw repeated use over time, two sites within easy walking distance of one another and the same stream.