A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal left behind after repeated use. Water was heated by dropping stones that had been made red-hot in a fire into a water-filled trough, and the burnt, shattered stones were then discarded to the sides, gradually building up the mound. Finding one of these sites is notable enough; finding three clustered together along the same watercourse is the kind of arrangement that quietly raises questions about how intensively this small stretch of land was once used.

The site described here sits on the southern bank of the stream, and was already recorded as a mound on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1937, which suggests it had a visible presence in the landscape well before any formal archaeological attention was paid to it. A second mound lies directly to the east, and a third sits just to the northeast, on the opposite, northern bank of the stream. The proximity of all three to running water is entirely typical; fulachtaí fia are almost always found near a reliable water source, which was central to their function. What the clustering here means in terms of chronology or use is harder to say. They may represent repeated return to a favoured spot over generations, or near-simultaneous activity at a single location.