The monument came to light not through any planned research programme but because road builders had to go through the ground first, making it one of thousands of Irish archaeological sites whose existence we know about almost entirely by accident. A fulacht fia, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a type of ancient outdoor cooking place, typically consisting of a mound of fire-cracked stone accumulated beside a water trough; heated stones would be dropped into the trough to boil water, and the discarded, shattered stones piled up over centuries into the low, distinctive mounds that survive across the Irish landscape today.

This particular site was identified during archaeological testing and monitoring carried out in advance of the Limerick Southern Ring Road, the section of the M7 that arcs around the south of the city. Excavation took place in 2001 under licence number 01E0056, directed by archaeologist Avril Hayes. The mound measured 18.4 metres north to south and 15.5 metres east to west, with a depth of around 0.4 metres, and it did not end neatly at the road corridor; it continued beyond the line of the road to the south, meaning only a portion of the monument was actually excavated. Within close range, the site was not alone: a hut site lay approximately 150 metres to the west, and a second fulacht fia sat roughly 20 metres to the west, suggesting a small cluster of activity in this part of the Limerick landscape during prehistory.

The site itself is not publicly accessible in any conventional sense; it was excavated as part of a road scheme and the ground above it is now effectively the road corridor of the Southern Ring Road. What survives in accessible form is the excavation report, recorded on excavations.ie (2001:788) and in Hayes's own report from 2001. For anyone interested in how Bronze Age sites are discovered and recorded in Ireland, this entry is a useful example of the process: routine infrastructure monitoring, a trained eye on the ground, and the quiet work of documentation preserving what the digger bucket would otherwise have erased without record.