A fulacht fia is a Bronze Age cooking site, typically consisting of a trough, a hearth, and a mound of fire-cracked stones that accumulated as hot rocks were used to boil water. They are found in their thousands across Ireland, often in low-lying or marshy ground, and yet this one has been reduced to little more than a gentle irregularity in the grass.

According to local information, the site was levelled around 1974, most likely during agricultural improvement works, which accounts for its near-invisible condition today. What survives is the residual spread of heat-shattered stone, the characteristic dark, scorched material that gives these monuments their distinctive signature in the soil. A second fulacht fia lies roughly forty metres to the south-east, suggesting that this part of the Cloghboola area saw repeated or sustained activity during the Bronze Age, a pattern not unusual where water sources and suitable ground made repeated use practical.