Fulachtaí fia, the plural of fulacht fia, are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, typically Bronze Age features associated with the heating of water, possibly for cooking, bathing, or other communal purposes. They work on a simple but effective principle: stones are heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough, bringing the water rapidly to the boil. What makes this particular site worth pausing over is the number of them found together, and the level of structural detail that came to light when the soil was finally removed.

An excavation carried out in 2000 by archaeologist Donald Murphy uncovered the four features, the most informative of which was the fourth fulacht. Spread across an area of roughly eight metres by six metres, it produced a stone-lined rectangular trough, a possible hearth, a rectangular sunken surface that had been hardened through repeated use, and a series of post-holes associated with each of these elements. The post-holes suggest that at least some of the activity here took place within a roofed or walled structure, which is not always assumed for sites of this type. The burnt mound material, the characteristic spread of fire-cracked and blackened stone that gives these monuments their distinctive appearance, was present across the full extent of that spread.