What they would be overlooking is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in extraordinary numbers across Ireland and particularly in Munster. The basic principle involves heating stones in a fire, dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, and using that heat to cook meat. The broken, fire-cracked stones are then discarded to the side, building up over repeated use into a distinctive horseshoe-shaped mound. Thousands of these sites survive across the country, quietly embedded in boggy ground and field margins.

The Killabraher example has had a rougher time than most. According to local information, the mound was levelled around 1961, a fate that was not uncommon for earthworks that sat inconveniently in agricultural land during the mid-twentieth century, before archaeological protection became more consistently enforced. What remains is a grass-covered spread of the burnt material, the compacted debris of those discarded heat-shattered stones, still legible to a trained eye even after the physical mound itself was flattened. It is recorded in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 4, covering North Cork, published in 2000.