No earthwork, no visible mound, no marker of any kind announced its presence; it was found only when test trenches were opened in 2016 as part of the archaeological assessment for a proposed development.

A fulacht fia is a type of site found in considerable numbers across Ireland, typically Bronze Age in date, and understood to represent an outdoor cooking method in which water-filled troughs were heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into them. The stones, once used and shattered by the thermal shock, were discarded in a mound nearby. At this site, beside the Bulkan River, a tributary of the River Robe, the excavation revealed a horseshoe-shaped spread of precisely that material: heat-shattered rocks, burnt soil, and charcoal fragments, measuring roughly eight metres east to west and up to five and a half metres north to south, sitting no more than thirty to forty centimetres below the current ground surface. Between the open arms of the horseshoe, which face northward, archaeologists identified part of a trough, its presence indicated by the outline of its upper fill rather than its actual structure, since the trough itself was not excavated. The fill consisted of soil mixed with burnt and partially burnt stones, and the whole feature overlies a layer of grey clay. It was left in place, preserved in situ, rather than fully uncovered. What makes the location additionally interesting is that another fulacht fia sits just 1.3 metres to the south-west, suggesting this stretch of riverside ground saw repeated or concurrent use in prehistory.