Road construction has a way of uncovering things that would otherwise remain buried indefinitely, and in this case the machinery prompted archaeologists to look more closely at a patch of ground in Ballinaspig More that turned out to hold something genuinely worth puzzling over.

Test-trenching carried out in 2001, ahead of bypass construction, revealed a spread of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil measuring roughly 4.5 metres by 2.75 metres. Just to the south of it lay a smaller deposit of dark orange silty clay with charcoal inclusions, interpreted as a probable hearth associated with the main spread. A further shallow depression nearby, also filled with heat-shattered stones and charcoal-rich soil, resisted easy classification; excavators noted it did not appear to be a trough. A burnt mound, to explain the term briefly, is typically the debris left by repeated heating of stones in fire and plunging them into water, a cooking or industrial process common in Bronze Age Ireland. The site carries the designation "possible" because the evidence, while suggestive, was not conclusive. What gives it an additional layer of interest is its proximity to a confirmed fulacht fia, the Irish term for a burnt mound site, which lies approximately 110 metres to the west. Whether the two features were in use at the same time, or represent activity at different periods, the excavation record does not resolve. Murphy's 2003 report on the finds remains the primary account of what was uncovered during those trenches.