The one recorded at Cahereamore in County Clare is a quiet representative of this class, a type of site that was for a long time something of an archaeological puzzle. The term itself, loosely translated as "wild deer cooking place", points to an older folk interpretation, though most archaeologists now understand these features as Bronze Age burnt mound sites, dating broadly from around 1500 BC onwards. The typical form is a horseshoe-shaped or kidney-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal-rich soil, built up beside a trough, usually timber-lined, that could be filled with water and heated by dropping in stones from a nearby fire.

What drew people to create these sites, and what exactly they were used for, has generated genuine debate. Cooking is the most widely accepted explanation, the heated-stone method being an effective way to boil water without a metal vessel. But experiments and analysis have suggested other possibilities too, including use as saunas, textile-processing facilities, or brewing sites. Clare is particularly rich in prehistoric remains of all kinds, and Cahereamore sits within a county landscape that includes ring forts, standing stones, and the limestone terrain of the Burren not far to the north. The precise character and condition of the Cahereamore example are not fully documented in publicly available sources at present, which places it among a number of Clare monuments whose local detail is still being worked through.