Beneath the turf lies a spread of burnt material, the characteristic signature of a fulacht fia, an ancient cooking site in which stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. These features are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, yet they remain easy to overlook precisely because they look, at a glance, like nothing more than a slight rise in the ground.

The site belongs to a cluster. A researcher named Bowman, writing in 1934, recorded four fulachta fiadh within the townland, and this is believed to be one of them. The concentration of four such sites in a single townland is not unusual in Cork, where fulachta fiadh appear in considerable numbers near water sources, but it does suggest repeated or sustained use of the area over time. The burnt stone that accumulates at these sites comes from repeated heating and thermal shock, which causes the stones to crack and crumble, eventually building up into the low spreads that survive today.