What survives here is a deposit of burnt stone and ash barely seventy centimetres long, thirty centimetres wide, and twelve centimetres deep. It would be easy to walk past it entirely. But that scorched scatter is the remnant of a fulacht fia, one of the most frequently encountered prehistoric site types in Ireland, and its modest dimensions only make the fact of its survival more quietly remarkable.

Fulachtaí fia (the plural form) are generally understood to be ancient cooking or heating sites, typically Bronze Age in origin, where stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring the water to a boil. The process leaves behind a characteristic horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked, heat-shattered stone, dark with charcoal and ash. They tend to cluster in low-lying, waterlogged ground, which is consistent with the damp conditions recorded immediately to the west and north of this site. The stony character of the surrounding area is similarly typical of the landscapes in which these sites are found across Munster and beyond. What is recorded at Termon is small even by the standards of a site type that varies considerably in scale, and it appears as a shallow, exposed deposit rather than the more familiar upstanding mound.