The example at Dromagorteen, in the valley of the Sheen River in south-west Kerry, sits within Bonane Heritage Park on a gently rolling slope facing south-west. It takes the form of a horseshoe-shaped mound, roughly a metre and a half high and just over ten metres at its longest, composed almost entirely of burnt and fire-cracked stone. That horseshoe shape, open at one end, is characteristic of the type. The prevailing theory is that these sites were used for cooking, or possibly bathing, by heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough until the water boiled. The mound itself is the accumulated debris of that process, centuries of discarded, heat-shattered stone built up into a low ridge. Here, the opening faces north-west towards a wet area, consistent with the need for a reliable water source close at hand.

What makes this particular spot quietly remarkable is its company. Approximately twenty-five metres to the west lie a multiple-stone circle and a boulder-burial, a form of Bronze Age monument in which a large capstone rests on a ring of smaller stones, covering a burial. The clustering of these different monument types in a relatively small area suggests that this stretch of the Sheen valley was a place of repeated and layered significance, used and reused across generations during prehistory. The fulacht fia's mound material has been partially exposed by a fallen tree, its root system pulling back the accumulated earth and stone to reveal something of what lies beneath, a small, accidental window into the deposits that make up the mound.