Beneath what is now ordinary farmland, a fulacht fia, an ancient cooking place typically consisting of a water-filled trough and a mound of fire-cracked stones, was discovered only by accident, when a drain was being cut through the ground and the trough came up along with burnt stones and charcoal. No trace of it is visible at the surface today.

The discovery was made by the landowner during drainage work through a nearby rath, the earthen ringfort within which this fulacht fia had originally sat. The fact that it lay at the centre of the fort is itself unusual; fulachtaí fia are common across Ireland, numbering in the thousands, but their relationship to enclosed settlements is not always so direct. The site sits one field to the south-southwest of a second fulacht fia, suggesting this small corner of north Kerry was in repeated, possibly sustained use over a long period. The charcoal recovered during the drainage work would, in principle, allow radiocarbon dating, though no such results are noted for this site. The cooking method these features represent, heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a trough of water to bring it to a boil, was widespread during the Bronze Age, though some sites continued in use into later periods.