A low grass-covered mound, barely half a metre high and nine metres across, sits on a soggy wedge of pasture in County Kildare, hemmed in by two branches of the Morell River. To a passing eye it might look like nothing more than a slight rise in a wet field. It is, in fact, the remains of a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found across Ireland in considerable numbers, typically beside water. The method involved heating stones in a fire, then dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it rapidly to the boil; the cracked and blackened stones were then discarded into a mound nearby. That accumulated debris, dark earth mixed with burnt stone, is precisely what survives here at Daars.

The site sits on what the landscape itself seems to have chosen deliberately: a low-lying headland of pasture flanked by the northward-flowing Morell roughly 150 metres to the east, and by a northward-flowing tributary of the same river about 150 metres to the west. Proximity to water was not incidental for fulachta fia; it was the whole point. What makes this particular spot quietly interesting is that a second possible example of the same monument type lies just 25 metres to the east, suggesting that this damp tongue of land between two converging watercourses was returned to, perhaps across generations, for the same purpose. Whether the two mounds were used simultaneously or represent separate episodes of activity separated by considerable time is not something the visible remains can answer.