A fulacht fia is a type of ancient outdoor cooking place, typically consisting of a mound of fire-cracked stones beside a trough that would have been filled with water and heated by dropping those stones into it. This particular example is not visible at ground level at all, its surface traces long since levelled away.

The site came to light not through deliberate archaeological excavation but as a consequence of construction work on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline between 1981 and 1982. Investigations carried out during that project, and later published by Cleary and colleagues in 1987, identified the remains as a levelled fulacht fia. The landscape around it still holds further traces of prehistoric activity; a second fulacht fia lies roughly 250 metres to the north-east, suggesting this quiet corner of Tipperary was a place of some repeated use in prehistory, even if nothing of that activity now breaks the surface of the improved farmland above it.