A fulacht fia, the term used for a type of ancient cooking or industrial site typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stone and a timber-lined trough, was found here not in isolation but as one of a pair, suggesting this was a place people returned to and worked in some organised way.

Excavation by Donald Murphy in the year 2000 revealed that the first of the two fulachta fiadh consisted of an oval spread of burnt material measuring 21 metres by 36 metres, a substantial footprint that points to prolonged or repeated use. Beneath that spread, fourteen pits were uncovered. One shallow oval pit, roughly 2.76 metres by 3 metres, had twenty-six small stake-holes arranged around its circumference, the kind of pattern that suggests a simple wicker or timber structure once stood over or around it. A second pit contained three post-holes that may have supported another hut or shelter on the site. The picture that emerges is not simply of a place where stones were heated and food was boiled, but of a location that had some degree of built infrastructure around it, however temporary or seasonal that may have been.