A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and shattered stone beside a trough that would once have been filled with water, heated by dropping fire-cracked rocks into it. They are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, scattered in their thousands across low-lying and waterlogged ground. This one, however, has the distinction of being essentially unverifiable, swallowed by dense undergrowth when investigators attempted to locate it in 2000.

The site survives, if it survives at all, on local knowledge rather than direct observation. It was recorded on the basis of information from people familiar with the area rather than from any physical inspection that could confirm the mound's presence, dimensions, or condition. What makes the situation more intriguing is that a second possible fulacht fia has been identified roughly eighty metres to the east, suggesting that whatever activity drew people to this particular patch of Cork countryside in prehistory may have happened more than once, or over a longer period. Pairs and clusters of fulachta fia are not unusual; the sites are often found near streams or boggy ground, and one location that suited prehistoric people for communal cooking or industrial water-heating could well have attracted repeated use across generations.