The one in question occupies marshy ground just east of its nearest neighbour, part of a cluster whose density suggests repeated, perhaps habitual use of this particular stretch of low-lying Cork landscape across prehistoric time. A fulacht fia, to use the Irish term, is a type of ancient cooking site, typically consisting of a mound of fire-cracked stone and charred earth built up around a water trough, where heated stones were dropped into liquid to bring it to the boil. They are extraordinarily common across Ireland, yet individually they rarely attract much attention, which makes a group of six all the more worth pausing over.

This particular mound once held the classic horseshoe shape associated with fulachta fiadh, the curved form produced as spent, shattered stone is raked back from the edges of the trough over many uses. By the time it was formally recorded, drainage works had already altered it considerably. The horseshoe had been partially levelled, and a revetment of stones that had lined the inner edge of the mound was gone. What remained measured roughly one metre in height, with an L-shaped profile: a longer arm of twelve metres running east to west, and a shorter arm of six metres extending from it. The shift from horseshoe to L-shape is not geological drift but human intervention, a small piece of agricultural history folded into a much older archaeological one.