During routine cleaning of a field drain near Tooreen, at the base of Shehy Mountain in County Cork, a large quantity of burnt stone and charcoal-rich soil was turned up from below ground. The material is characteristic of a fulacht fia, the term used for a type of prehistoric cooking or processing site, typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stone accumulated beside a trough and a water source. The precise extent of the burnt spread remains unclear, lying somewhere immediately south of the causeway connecting two fields, but the signature of repeated high-temperature activity was plain enough to prompt a formal report.

What makes the location quietly notable is its relationship to the surrounding landscape. A stream runs approximately ten metres to the south, a tributary of the Bandon River, providing exactly the kind of reliable water access these sites required. More striking still, a large and already-recorded fulacht fia sits roughly 150 metres to the north-west. The clustering of such sites is not unusual; archaeologists have noted repeatedly that fulachta fia tend to appear in groups, often along watercourses and in low-lying, level ground. This possible second example, reported by Tony Miller in December 2014, fits that pattern precisely, occupying a flat area of improved grassland that would have been equally practical for prehistoric use as it is for modern farming.