These are the remains of ancient cooking sites, typically Bronze Age in date, where stones were heated in fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil. The scorched and shattered stones were discarded in a horseshoe or circular heap around the trough, and it is precisely that accumulation of burnt and cracked rock that eventually formed the mound visible today.

When the land at Furhane was ploughed, the disturbance brought some of those characteristic burnt stones to the surface, confirming what the shape of the ground had already suggested. The mound measures roughly 13 metres north to south and 15 metres east to west, modest dimensions but broadly typical for the type. The site was recorded as part of the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995 by C. Toal, a systematic effort to document the archaeological landscape of the region. Thousands of fulachtaí fia are known across Ireland, often found near water sources, and Kerry has a particularly dense concentration of them, though most, like this one, attract little attention from passersby.