This is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in great numbers across Ireland, typically Bronze Age in origin. The basic principle involved heating stones in a fire, then dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil. The spent, shattered stones were piled to the side after each use, and over generations that pile became a mound. Here the crescent shape, so characteristic of the form, measures roughly 4.6 metres north to south and 3.3 metres east to west, rising only about a quarter of a metre above the surrounding ground. Its southern-facing opening, around 2.3 metres wide, would have been where the trough once sat.

What makes this particular spot worth attention is not just the site itself but its immediate company. Within roughly ten metres to the northwest lies a related burnt mound, and another fulacht fia sits about ten metres to the southeast. Three prehistoric cooking sites clustered so closely together suggests repeated, possibly intensive, use of this hillside over time, though whether they were contemporaneous or represent different episodes of activity is not recorded. The mound material, a mixture of heat-shattered stone and charcoal-enriched soil, is gradually being exposed along paths worn by sheep, which gives some sense of what lies just beneath the surface of what otherwise looks like an unremarkable field on a mountain slope in the Beara Peninsula.