At Lahard, to the east of Power Head on the south Cork coast, flint fragments have been recorded lying in open farmland, the quiet remnant of activity that predates written history by thousands of years.

A lithic scatter is exactly what it sounds like: a concentration of stone tools or the waste flakes produced when prehistoric people knapped flint to make cutting edges, scrapers, or projectile points. Flint does not occur naturally in most of Cork's bedrock, which makes its presence here notable. It would have been carried to the site, either traded or transported from elsewhere, suggesting that whoever used this spot was mobile, purposeful, and connected to wider networks of movement across the landscape. The find was recorded by University College Cork, though the precise period of the scatter, whether Mesolithic, Neolithic, or later, is not documented in detail.