Fulachtaí fia are ancient cooking sites, typically Bronze Age in date, where water was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into a trough until the water boiled. The tell-tale signature is always the same: a mound of darkened, heat-shattered stone that accumulates over time beside the trough, forming the characteristic horseshoe or kidney shape seen here at Aughiska More.

The site came to light not through deliberate excavation but through routine monitoring of pipe works during the Lisdoonvarna Water Supply Scheme in 1999. Archaeologist Ken Hanley, working under licence, noticed that the modern northeast-to-southwest road had clipped the southern edge of the mound. A small section, roughly one to two metres long and about half a metre wide, was exposed and excavated where the road had cut through it. What emerged was a thin layer of dark, heat-shattered stones, in places only two centimetres thick, sitting directly on the natural subsoil and sealed beneath some forty to fifty centimetres of road bedding. The main body of the mound, measuring an estimated 8.5 metres long, 8 metres wide, and between 0.2 and 0.5 metres high, remains undisturbed in the field to the north.

The mound is visible from the roadside, though its low profile means it reads more as a slight rise in the pasture than anything obviously ancient. The road that partly covers it serves, unintentionally, as both a threat to the archaeology and a kind of accidental marker of where the site sits.