The qualifier matters here, because there is no physical trace of it remaining at ground level. What places it on the archaeological record at all is local knowledge, passed on and noted in a site file dating to 1990. The site exists, in other words, primarily as memory and inference rather than as anything you could point to in a field.

A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and fire-cracked stone accumulated beside a trough or pit. The general interpretation is that water was heated by dropping fire-heated stones into the trough, and that the sites were used for cooking, and possibly for other purposes including bathing or textile processing. They are among the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland, found in their thousands, and they cluster reliably near water, which makes the southern bank of the Mannin River a wholly plausible location. What is unusual about the Tooraree site is not its setting but its near-total absence from the landscape. It is one of three fulacht fias recorded in this particular stretch of the area, the others documented under separate site references, which suggests the locality saw repeated or sustained use during prehistory even if nothing now announces that fact to the eye.