A fulacht fia is a Bronze Age cooking site, typically consisting of a trough dug near a water source and a mound of fire-cracked stones accumulated from repeatedly heating rocks and dropping them into water to bring it to the boil. Thousands survive across Ireland, making them one of the most commonly recorded prehistoric monument types in the country, though individual examples often go unnoticed in the landscape.

This particular example in Leitra, Co. Clare was identified by Tom Coffey in 1994. It measures roughly 3.1 metres north to south and 2 metres east to west, rising only 0.35 to 0.5 metres above the surrounding pastureland, and is open to the north-west in the distinctive crescent shape that characterises so many of these sites. A slight subcircular hollow on the western side, about 1.5 metres in diameter and 0.2 metres deep, may mark where the original trough once sat. The mound is positioned around 145 metres from a stream to the north-west, which would have supplied the water essential to the whole operation. A later field wall runs approximately 7 metres to the south, a reminder that the land has been worked and reworked across many centuries since. Notably, a second fulacht fia lies just 100 metres to the south-east, suggesting this stretch of low-lying ground near Castle Lough was a place of repeated or sustained activity during the Bronze Age.