A fulacht fiadh is a type of prehistoric cooking or industrial site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically dating from the Bronze Age. The basic principle involves heating stones in a fire, then dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring the water to a boil; over time, the repeated thermal shock causes the stones to crack and fragment, and the discarded material accumulates into the horseshoe-shaped mounds that archaeologists recognise across the landscape. The site at Dromteewakeen fits this pattern. The ploughing that revealed it also, almost certainly, disturbed it, meaning what was exposed was the residual scatter of a feature that had already lost much of its original form. It sits roughly 250 metres north-east of another recorded site in the same area, suggesting this stretch of the Caragh river valley was a place where people returned to, or settled around, over an extended period.