The only reason it is known about at all is that drainage works at some point disturbed the earth and revealed a spread of burnt material, the characteristic signature of a fulacht fia. These sites, which date broadly to the Bronze Age, were outdoor cooking places where stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The process left behind a distinctive horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked, blackened stones and charred organic material. Here, that mound is either gone or buried deeply enough that no trace of it shows at the surface.

What is known comes entirely from local accounts gathered at some point before 1997, when the site was catalogued in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. No archaeologist appears to have visited it directly; the record notes plainly that the site was not inspected. The burnt spread was noticed during drainage works, the kind of routine agricultural or land-management activity that has accidentally uncovered, and just as often destroyed, prehistoric sites across Ireland. Whether the material survived intact below ground or was largely removed in the course of that work is simply not recorded.