This one sits in rough hill grazing at Scarteen in south-west Kerry, within an ancient field system, and presents itself as a low horseshoe-shaped mound, sod-covered and unassuming, measuring roughly 8.4 metres north to south and 6.5 metres east to west, rising only 0.65 metres from the ground. The opening of the horseshoe, about 3 metres across and lined with rushes, faces west towards a wet area, which is exactly where you would expect it to face.

A fulacht fia is, in essence, a Bronze Age cooking or processing site. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, and the shattered, heat-cracked stones were thrown aside over time to form the characteristic mound. That accumulation of burnt and broken stone is what survives at Scarteen, still holding its horseshoe shape after perhaps three or four thousand years. The orientation towards the wet ground to the west is consistent with the practical logic of the site: proximity to water was not incidental but central to whatever activity took place here. A second possible example of the same monument type lies roughly 15 metres to the south-west, suggesting this small corner of Kerry may have seen repeated or sustained use over time.