That is what makes this corner of County Clare quietly remarkable. Within roughly 200 metres of one another, four fulachtaí fia sit in the low-lying, damp ground at Fahee, clustered so closely together that the concentration feels less like coincidence and more like deliberate use of a particular landscape. A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically Bronze Age in date, consisting of a horseshoe-shaped or mound-like spread of fire-cracked stone left behind after repeated cycles of heating rocks and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to boiling point. They are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, yet they are so easy to overlook, grassy humps in a field that could pass for natural undulations.

The site recorded here is a subcircular mound measuring 12 metres on its northeast to southwest axis and 8 metres across, standing between 1.1 and 1.4 metres high. At its centre sits a shallow depression, around 0.7 metres deep, now partly colonised by hazel and blackthorn scrub. The surrounding landscape does much to explain its location: a spring lies close to the northeast, and small streams run to either side, flowing north-northeast. This kind of waterlogged, low-lying ground, overlooked by higher exposed bedrock to the east and south, is precisely the sort of setting where fulachtaí fia are routinely found across Ireland. Water was not incidental to these sites; it was their whole point. Two further examples lie just 27 and 35 metres to the southeast respectively, and a fourth sits approximately 195 metres away in the same direction. The site was reported independently by Tom Coffey and Donncha Ó Dúlaing, and was formally listed in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996.