Beneath that tangle of vegetation, however, lie the burnt and shattered stones that mark it as a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in the hundreds across Ireland. The working theory for most of these monuments is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring the water to a boil, cracking and blackening the stones in the process. That accumulation of discarded, heat-fractured rock is what eventually built up into the low horseshoe or oval mounds that archaeologists identify today.

What gives this particular site a small additional layer of interest is the well that once lay to its west, known locally as Moldy's Well. The proximity of a water source to a fulacht fia is entirely typical, since the whole process depended on a reliable supply, but Moldy's Well has now vanished from the surface entirely, leaving only its local name behind. That name itself is a quietly odd survival, the kind of informal, vernacular label that outlasts the physical feature it described. The site was documented by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.