A fulacht fia is a type of ancient outdoor cooking place, typically consisting of a mound of fire-cracked stone accumulated over years of use beside a water source. The method was simple: stones were heated in a fire and dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, cooking meat wrapped in straw or placed in the hot water. At Foilogohig, the usual low mound of scorched and shattered stone has long since been disturbed, with no visible trace remaining above ground.

The site came to light not through formal excavation but through land reclamation, when a spread of burnt material turned up during agricultural work. Its existence was recorded by Bowman in 1934, who noted it alongside a second fulacht fia on the same land, then belonging to a J. Angland. The site sits to the north of a dried-up stream, which is consistent with the pattern seen at most fulachta fiadh; proximity to water was essential to their function. That the stream itself has since dried up adds a quiet layer of change to the place, the landscape having shifted even further from whatever it looked like when the site was in use, somewhere in the Bronze Age.