A fulacht fia, the term for a type of prehistoric outdoor cooking or heating site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically survives as a low, horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stones beside a water source. Here, there is no mound to see at all.

The site sits in a landscape shaped by water, occupying an area of old stream beds wedged between the steep descent to the Dinin river and a broad terrace carved out by the River Douglas, with the eastern uplands rising beyond. That kind of low-lying, waterlogged ground is exactly where fulachtaí fia tend to cluster; the method of cooking involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough, and proximity to a stream or boggy hollow was essential to the whole operation. The site was first noted by Prendergast in 1955. When a field visit was made in 1987, the land had been reclaimed and was under long grass, with nothing visible at ground level. It has remained, as far as the record goes, a site defined more by its absence than by anything a visitor could point to.