These ancient cooking sites, typically dating to the Bronze Age, are recognised by their characteristic horseshoe-shaped mounds of fire-cracked stone, built up over generations of use beside streams or marshy ground. The method was simple but effective: stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough, bringing it rapidly to a boil. The one recorded at Inchicorrigane, in County Kerry, represents a local instance of this widespread but quietly remarkable tradition.

The place-name Inchicorrigane offers its own small clue to the landscape. The Irish element "inis" can refer to a riverside meadow or a piece of land near water, which fits well with the typical preference of fulachta fia for low-lying, wet ground close to a reliable water source. Kerry has a high concentration of these monuments, the county's boggy terrain preserving what drier soils elsewhere would long since have consumed. Beyond the site's location and type, the available record is thin, and it would be unwise to elaborate further on specific details that have not been documented in any accessible form.