The example at Trawlebane in County Cork is a quiet but legible one: a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-darkened soil, roughly 11.5 metres along its longer axis and still standing about 0.7 metres high, sitting in rough grazing land that has only partially been brought back into agricultural use. Gorse and briars have colonised parts of it, but the form is intact enough to read clearly, with an opening nearly three metres wide facing northwest.

Fulachtaí fia, the plural of fulacht fia, are generally interpreted as Bronze Age cooking sites, though their precise function has been debated for decades. The principle is straightforward: stones were heated in fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, which explains both the shattered condition of the stones and the scorched, organic-rich soil that builds up around them over repeated use. The horseshoe or crescent shape of the mound is the almost universal signature of the type, formed as discarded stones and ash were piled to either side of the working area. What makes Trawlebane of particular interest is its proximity to a standing stone, which lies roughly 170 metres to the southwest. The relationship between the two monuments, if there is one, is not recorded, but their co-presence in the same small landscape is a reminder that Bronze Age communities were organising and marking their surroundings in ways that went well beyond simple practicality.