The example at Drom in County Cork sits on a gentle east-facing slope in rough grazing land, presenting itself as a low horseshoe-shaped mound measuring roughly 7.6 metres east to west and 6.2 metres north to south, rising just 0.65 metres above the surrounding ground. Its opening, about 2.2 metres wide, faces south onto marshy ground, and the whole structure is girdled by a shallow blanket bog. What you are looking at, if you know what to look for, is a Bronze Age cooking place, the mound itself composed almost entirely of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-darkened soil, the debris left behind after repeated cycles of heating stones in fire and plunging them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil.

The location is entirely typical of the type. Fulachtaí fia, a term sometimes translated loosely as "cooking places of the deer," are almost invariably found close to water or on boggy, poorly drained ground, which would have supplied the necessary water source. The marshy ground immediately to the south of this example, and the blanket bog surrounding it, point to exactly the kind of wet, low-lying setting these sites consistently favour. What gives Drom a little extra interest is the presence of a hut site recorded approximately five metres to the north. The proximity of a domestic structure to a cooking monument raises the quiet possibility that this was not simply a communal or seasonal cooking spot visited and abandoned, but part of a small, functioning prehistoric settlement, where people both lived and prepared food within a short walk of one another.