At Meenskeha in north Cork, one such site survives as a low, roughly oval mound of burnt material, measuring around thirteen metres on its longest axis and rising only about a quarter of a metre above the surrounding ground. That modest profile, half-swallowed by rough grazing land, is almost the whole visible story.

A fulacht fia, the term used in Irish archaeology for these Bronze Age cooking or processing sites, typically consists of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal, the debris that accumulates around a water trough after repeated heating. The working method, as best understood, involved dropping stones heated in a fire into a trough filled with water, bringing it to the boil. The shattered, heat-exhausted stones were then discarded to the sides, building up the characteristic mound over many episodes of use. Sites of this type are dated broadly to the Bronze Age, though their precise function is still debated, with cooking, textile processing, and bathing all proposed at various times. The Meenskeha example fits the general type closely: its burnt mound material and oval form are entirely consistent with what has been recorded at comparable sites across Munster and beyond.