In a damp, low-lying corner of County Kildare, near the bank of a stream at Tipper, a cluster of six fulachtaí fia occupy ground that has probably been waterlogged since prehistory. A fulacht fia is a type of ancient cooking site, found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a mound of burnt and cracked stone beside a trough that would have been filled with water and heated by dropping fire-heated stones into it. They are almost always found near water, and the wet, marshy conditions at Tipper are entirely typical of the type.

The site itself has been levelled over time, but traces remain visible in a drainage trench: cracked stone and the dark, charcoal-stained soil that is the characteristic signature of these monuments. A 1955 description recorded it as horseshoe-shaped in plan, roughly eleven metres in diameter and half a metre high, positioned close to the stream bank. That horseshoe outline is the classic form of a fulacht mound, the shape produced by the gradual accumulation of discarded burnt stone around three sides of a central trough. The fact that six such sites cluster together in this one wet area suggests sustained, repeated use of the landscape over time, though the precise periods of activity are not recorded for this particular group.