What was found here is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically consisting of a mound of fire-cracked stone accumulated beside a water trough. The basic method involved heating stones in a fire, then dropping them into a water-filled pit to bring the water to the boil, a technique repeated until whatever was being cooked was ready. The stones, shattered by the repeated heating and cooling, were discarded into a low mound alongside the trough. These sites are found in their thousands across Ireland, yet each one represents a specific episode of activity, at a specific place, by specific people.

This particular site came to light not through chance but through a geophysical survey carried out under Licence 06R067 in advance of a proposed development. The survey results were then confirmed by test excavation under Licence 08E0303. What the excavation revealed was two spreads of burnt mound material, each over ten metres in diameter, and a series of three sub-circular troughs or pits ranging between 0.65 and 0.9 metres across, consistent with the small working pits associated with fulacht fia sites. Notably, the fulacht fia was found to overlie a possible ring ditch, recorded separately as DU011-146002, which suggests the area had seen earlier activity, potentially funerary or ceremonial in character, before the cooking site was established. The details are recorded in Frazer's 2008 report.

The site sits within what is now a developed or development-sensitive landscape on the northern fringes of County Dublin, and access is not straightforward for the casual visitor. There is nothing to see at ground level; the remains were identified and recorded through professional archaeological investigation rather than visible surface features. Anyone with a serious interest in the site would do well to consult the National Monuments Service's online database, where the record is held, or to seek out the Frazer 2008 report for the full excavation findings. The value of a place like this is less in visiting it than in knowing it existed, a fragment of daily prehistoric life briefly made legible before the ground closed over it again.