That concentration alone makes this an unusual cluster. A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stones and charcoal-dark soil, the debris left behind after repeated cycles of heating stones and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. They are among the most commonly found prehistoric monuments in Ireland, but finding six of them gathered in the same field is a different matter.

The site sits beside a stream, which is exactly where you would expect to find such monuments; reliable water was essential to how they functioned. One of the six has a spread of burnt material recorded roughly thirty metres to its east, suggesting activity extending outward from the main mound. Whether these six sites represent repeated use of a favoured location over a long period, or something closer to simultaneous activity, is not recorded here. Bronze Age in date as a type, fulachta fiadh are otherwise modest in appearance, low grass-covered mounds that can easily be mistaken for natural undulations in a field.