No mound, no hollow, no scatter of stone. Just pasture, and beneath it, according to local knowledge, some burnt material that was noted at some point and quietly recorded.

What lies beneath that unremarkable ground is, in all likelihood, a fulacht fia, one of the most common yet persistently mysterious monument types in the Irish landscape. The term refers to a prehistoric cooking site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone and charcoal built up beside a water source over repeated use. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, though what exactly was being cooked, or whether cooking was even the primary purpose, remains a matter of debate among archaeologists. They are found in their thousands across Ireland, concentrated in low-lying, often wet ground, and they date broadly to the Bronze Age. The Kilcor example sits to the east of a stream, now drained, which is precisely the kind of location where fulachta fiadh tend to cluster. The stream is gone, the mound is gone, and what survives is the burnt material itself, somewhere underfoot, and the memory of it passed along through local observation.