This one, in a meadow at the edge of forestry in Killakane, Co. Cork, is quietly interesting for what could not be found. A possible fulacht fia, one of the prehistoric cooking sites that appear in their thousands across the Irish landscape, was reported here in 2002, only to prove elusive when investigators returned two years later.

Fulachtaí fia are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, typically Bronze Age in date, and usually recognised as low, horseshoe-shaped mounds of burnt and shattered stone beside a natural water source. They are thought to represent communal cooking places, where water held in a timber-lined trough was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it. The Killakane example was noted prior to forestry planting in 2002 by John Roche, with a marshy area lying immediately to the north of the meadow in question, the kind of waterlogged ground that tends to accompany these sites. When fieldworkers attempted to confirm the monument in 2004, however, it could not be located. Whether it had been disturbed by ground preparation for the forestry, obscured by changed vegetation, or had simply been misidentified on the earlier visit is not recorded.