That kind of proximity is what makes this particular fulacht fia worth pausing over. A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically Bronze Age in date, where stones were heated in a fire and dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The process left behind a characteristic horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked, blackened stone, and it is one of these mounds that survives here at the base of a north-east-facing slope.

The mound measures roughly 8.25 metres along its north-north-east to south-south-west axis and 8 metres across, rising to a modest height of about 25 centimetres. Its opening faces west-north-west, as is common with the form. What sets the site apart is that two further fulachtaí fia lie just 3 metres to the west and 7.5 metres to the south. Whether the three were in use simultaneously, or represent activity returning to the same patch of ground over generations, is not something the visible remains can answer on their own. But their tight grouping in this corner of Kerry is unusual enough to suggest this was not a casual or incidental place.