It is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in great numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a trough for heating water and a surrounding mound of fire-cracked stone and charred earth left over from repeated use. What makes this one quietly notable is not its size, which is modest, but its context: it sits within a cluster of four such sites in the same townland, suggesting this particular patch of North Cork was a place people returned to, repeatedly, over what may have been a very long period.

The site was recorded by O'Shaughnessy in 1997 and is possibly connected to an earlier observation by Bowman in 1934, who noted four fulachta fiadh in the area. The exposed section was found at the southern end of a forestry trench, and the burnt layer is thought to continue further south, perhaps running beneath a field fence and therefore still largely unexcavated. That boundary between the visible and the buried is a recurring theme with sites like this: the three metres on record are almost certainly only a fragment of what remains.