At Foulkscourt in County Kilkenny, the building of the M8/N8 Cullahill to Cashel Road Improvement Scheme in 2006 brought to light a remarkable concentration of prehistoric cooking sites, among them this small burnt mound sitting quietly in the landscape for several thousand years before a licensed excavation finally gave it a proper look.

The mound itself is modest in scale, an oval spread measuring roughly 5.75 metres long, 3 metres wide, and only 0.2 metres deep, composed of loosely compacted sandy clay scattered with burnt stone and charcoal. It belongs to a type of site known in Irish archaeology as a fulacht fia, though this particular feature was classified as a burnt mound rather than a fulacht fia proper. The distinction is largely one of degree: a fulacht fia typically includes a trough, often timber-lined or stone-lined, used for heating water by dropping fire-cracked stones into it, whereas a burnt mound may represent the discarded debris of that same process without the full suite of associated features surviving. What makes Foulkscourt notable is not this single mound in isolation but its context. It was one of at least eight related sites uncovered in the same excavation campaign, five fulachta fia and three burnt mounds, all clustered together in the same stretch of ground. Such groupings suggest repeated, possibly seasonal, use of a favoured location over generations, a kind of prehistoric kitchen district rather than a one-off event. The findings were published by Hardy and Green, with this site recorded as Site E in their report.