Beneath waterlogged pasture, close to a natural spring, lies the buried trace of a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland. The typical fulacht fia consists of a trough, usually timber-lined, filled with water that was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it; the accumulated mound of those shattered, burnt stones is what normally survives and what archaeologists look for. Here, even that mound has gone, or was never visible to begin with. The only evidence is local memory: people familiar with the ground noticed burnt material, the telltale scorched and fragmented stone that marks these sites.

What lends the site a quieter strangeness is its company. Roughly ninety metres to the north-east lies another possible fulacht fia, suggesting that this low-lying, spring-fed corner of Mid Cork was visited repeatedly, perhaps over generations, by people who understood its particular usefulness. Waterlogged ground and reliable springs are almost diagnostic of fulacht fia locations across Ireland; the sites cluster where water was permanent and easily managed. Dating them precisely is difficult without excavation, but most Irish examples fall broadly within the Bronze Age. This one has never been excavated, and its full extent remains unknown.