A fulacht fia is a prehistoric cooking site, typically consisting of a mound of fire-cracked stones accumulated over repeated use, often positioned close to a water source. Here, a spring lies just to the south, which would have provided the water essential to the process: stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a trough of water to bring it rapidly to a boil, cooking meat or possibly serving other purposes such as bathing or textile production.

What makes this particular site quietly melancholy rather than merely ordinary is what happened to it in living memory. The mound, which would once have given the site its characteristic low hump above the surrounding ground, was levelled in 1982. What remains is now a grass-covered scatter of burnt material, the residue of repeated ancient fires, flattened into the pasture and easy to walk past without recognition. The spring to the south still rises, indifferent to what has been lost above ground.