To a casual eye it might look like little more than a boggy patch of ground, a slight discolouration in the grass. In fact, it is the remains of a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in large numbers across Ireland, particularly in low-lying, wet ground near water sources.

Fulachtaí fia, as they are known collectively, were in use broadly from the Bronze Age onwards, and their operating principle was straightforward. Stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough, typically timber-lined, to bring the water rapidly to a boil. The repeated heating and quenching cracked the stones, and the shattered, fire-reddened fragments were discarded in a heap nearby. Over time, those heaps accumulated into the horseshoe-shaped or spread mounds that survive today, many of them in exactly the kinds of damp, stream-side locations seen at Dromcummer More. The site here presents as a spread of burnt material rather than a pronounced mound, suggesting some degree of dispersal over the centuries, though the association with the adjacent stream follows the classic pattern almost without exception.