It is partially overgrown now, and easy to miss, but it is the kind of site that rewards a second look. This is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a trough that was filled with water, heated stones dropped in to bring it to the boil, and the cracked, fire-shattered stones then piled to one side. Over time those discarded heaps of burnt material accumulate into the low, often horseshoe or kidney-shaped mounds that survive today. Ireland has thousands of them, mostly dating to the Bronze Age, and they cluster with particular density near water and boggy ground, which is exactly where this one sits.

The mound here measures fourteen metres in length, 7.8 metres wide, and stands about a metre above the surrounding ground, with an opening 5.8 metres across facing south-west. What adds a quiet interest to the spot is that it does not stand alone. A second fulacht fia lies approximately a hundred metres to the east, raising the kind of question these sites often prompt but rarely answer: were they in use at the same time, serving the same community, or do they represent separate episodes of activity generations apart? The notes offer no date range for either site, and the archaeology of fulachtaí fia is rarely precise enough to say with confidence. Their proximity to the stream is, at least, entirely typical.