A fulacht fia is, in essence, the remains of an ancient cooking site: a mound of fire-cracked stone and charred earth, typically horseshoe-shaped, built up over repeated use as stones were heated in fire and dropped into water-filled troughs to bring them to the boil. The example at Meenagloghrane in North Cork follows the form faithfully enough, a partially levelled horseshoe of burnt material measuring twelve metres in both length and width, its opening facing north-north-west, with a dried-up well still visible at that same end.

What gives the site a small additional interest is that it sits on record twice over, noted independently by Bowman in 1934 and by Broker three years later in 1937. Broker's description, a mound roughly twenty feet in diameter and three feet high, gives a useful sense of how the site appeared in the mid-twentieth century, before levelling reduced it further. It lies in rough grazing ground, about 130 metres south of a stream, which is exactly the kind of low-lying, waterside location these sites tend to occupy. The proximity to a reliable water source was the whole point, the trough needing to be kept full, and that practicality is what makes the distribution of fulachta fia so legible even today: follow the watercourses and the monuments follow with them.