During the laying of a Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline between Hollybrook and Wicklow town, archaeologists monitoring the topsoil-stripping noticed small spreads of heat-shattered stone and charcoal in low-lying ground close to an unnamed stream. These are the characteristic traces of a fulacht fia, a type of Bronze Age cooking or processing site, typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stones accumulated beside a water source and a timber-lined trough into which heated stones were dropped to boil water.

The hand-cleaning of the exposed ground revealed two small pits, each roughly half a metre square and less than twenty centimetres deep, both filled with the same heat-shattered stone and charcoal. The pits were too small to have served as the water-filled troughs central to how a fulacht fia would have functioned. The working conclusion, recorded by Bennett in 2003, was that what the pipeline corridor had cut through was peripheral material, the outer scatter of a larger site lying just beyond the limits of the excavation. The main body of the fulacht fia, if it survives intact, remains somewhere in the townland, undisturbed and unexamined.

There is something quietly telling about a site known almost entirely by its edges. The pipeline's narrow right of way captured just enough burnt stone and charcoal to confirm that something was there, while leaving the thing itself untouched. It is a reminder that much of what is understood about Bronze Age activity in the Irish landscape has come not from targeted excavation but from the incidental archaeology uncovered during infrastructure works, where the ground is opened just wide enough to catch a glimpse.