Buried in the marshland at the edge of what was once a small lake lay a fulacht fia, one of the ancient cooking or processing sites found in their thousands across Ireland, typically consisting of a water-filled trough, a hearth, and a mound of fire-shattered stone. This one had lain quietly in the wet ground, its shallow pit still holding the dark residue of prehistoric activity, until road-builders arrived and archaeologists moved in ahead of them.

The excavation, carried out in advance of construction of the N8 Cashel Bypass and N74 Link Road South, uncovered an area of roughly forty metres by forty metres on ground lying about twenty metres south of a small lake. The fulacht fia itself was only partially exposed: a sub-circular pit or trough measuring 1.16 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep, filled with black sandy silt, charcoal, and burnt sandstone, the characteristic debris left when heated stones were used to bring water to the boil. Associated pits nearby contained the same material. The site was not isolated. Roughly forty metres to the west, excavators found two pit-burials, and about twenty metres to the northwest a kiln came to light. Together they suggest a landscape in which people returned over time, cooking or processing, burying their dead, and firing materials, all within a short distance of the same water source. The finds were documented by O'Flanagan in 2004 in an unpublished excavation report.