They appear as low, horseshoe-shaped mounds, typically found near water, and represent the scorched remains of Bronze Age cooking sites, where stones were heated in fire and then dropped into water-filled troughs to bring the liquid to a boil. The one recorded at Licketstown in County Kilkenny is a quiet addition to this vast, largely unsung category of monument.

The precise details of this particular site, its dimensions, condition, and exact setting within the Licketstown townland, are not fully documented in publicly available sources at present. What can be said is that fulachtaí fia in this part of Leinster tend to sit in low-lying or waterlogged ground, and the Kilkenny landscape, with its river valleys and soft pasture, is well suited to their survival. The mounds themselves are formed from the cracked and fire-shattered stones discarded after repeated use, accumulating over time into the characteristic shape that makes them identifiable even after three or four thousand years. Their function has been debated, with cooking remaining the most widely accepted explanation, though some researchers have proposed uses ranging from textile processing to bathing.