Fulachtaí fia are prehistoric cooking sites, found in their thousands across Ireland, typically consisting of a mound of burnt and shattered stone beside a trough and a hearth. The working method, as far as it is understood, involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, a process that gradually destroys the stones through repeated thermal shock, leaving behind the characteristic blackened debris.

Excavation in 2000, directed by Donald Murphy, uncovered a spread of burnt material measuring five metres by fourteen metres, with two small pits cut beneath it. Immediately to the north-east lay what may have been the trough itself, a roughly rectangular cut measuring approximately 1.5 metres by 1.75 metres and 0.34 metres deep. These dimensions are modest but consistent with functional cooking use. The site fits a familiar pattern: a low-lying location, a probable water source nearby, and the accumulated waste of repeated burning events compressed into a dark spread across the ground. What cannot be said with certainty from the available evidence is how old the site is or how long it was in use, questions that often require more extensive sampling to resolve.