A fulacht fia is a prehistoric cooking or industrial site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone, charcoal, and ash, the accumulated debris of repeatedly heating stones in a fire and plunging them into a water-filled trough. They appear in their thousands across Ireland, most dating to the Bronze Age, and they have a tendency to cluster near water sources.

This particular example sat to the south-east of a well, now dry, which would originally have supplied the water essential to its function. The mound itself was levelled around 1986, according to local information gathered at the time of survey, leaving only the spread of burnt material behind. What had once been an upstanding, visible feature in the landscape was effectively flattened within living memory, a reminder of how quietly these sites can disappear. The loss of the mound means that much of what might have been learned from its profile and stratigraphy is gone, though the underlying spread of burnt stone remains as evidence that something of significance once took place here.