That is precisely how this site came to attention, spotted on black and white aerial images in September 2004, its raised dry profile standing out clearly against the boggy terrain around it.

The mound is classified as a probable fulacht fiadh, a type of prehistoric cooking site found widely across Ireland and typically dating to the Bronze Age. The usual form involves a mound of fire-cracked stones accumulated beside a water trough, where stones heated in a fire were dropped into water to bring it to a boil for cooking or other purposes. At Caherleheen, the mound is roughly sub-circular in plan, measuring 28 metres by 18 metres and standing about 0.6 metres high. It is a reasonably substantial example, though a water-filled ditch and field boundary cut across it from north to south, and no definitive trough area has been identified. That missing trough, the feature that would most firmly confirm the cooking-site interpretation, leaves the classification sitting at probable rather than certain. Michael Connolly examined the site as part of his 2008 doctoral research into the prehistoric settlement of the Lee Valley around Tralee, placing it within a broader landscape of Bronze Age activity in this part of Kerry.