A fulacht fia, the term used for a type of prehistoric cooking site found across Ireland in enormous numbers, once stood here beside a well. These sites typically consist of a mound of burnt and shattered stone, the debris from repeated cycles of heating rocks and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. They date mostly to the Bronze Age and are among the most common archaeological monuments on the Irish landscape, yet individually they are easily overlooked, and easily lost.

This particular example survived long enough to be captured, in a sense, by an aerial photograph taken by Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, in which it appears as a distinctive patch of dark soil in a ploughed field, the scorched and organic-rich material that typically accumulates at such sites showing up clearly against the surrounding ground. Local knowledge confirmed the identification, placing it beside a well that was still marked on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1939. That pairing of fulacht fia and well is not unusual; proximity to water was essential for the site to function at all. At some point after that aerial photograph was taken, roadworks removed whatever physical trace remained, and the site was destroyed. No surface feature survives today.