Somewhere beneath an ordinary stretch of pasture on the south-eastern bank of a small stream in Mid Cork, there lies a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in great numbers across Ireland and Britain. The name, roughly meaning "burnt place" or "cooking pit of the deer", refers to a distinctive method by which water in a trough was heated using fire-cracked stones, which were then discarded into a characteristic horseshoe-shaped mound. These mounds, often dark with charcoal and shattered stone, are among the most common field monuments in the Irish landscape, but this one at Knockane has left no visible mark on the surface at all.

What is known about the site comes from local memory rather than excavation. Before a stream widening took place in 1988, burnt material was reportedly visible eroding from the stream bank, the kind of dark, heat-fractured stone deposit that is a reliable indicator of fulacht fia activity. The widening work appears to have disturbed or buried whatever remained accessible. The pasture above it now shows no trace.