A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and shattered stone left behind after repeated cycles of heating rocks and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, yet individually they tend to be modest, low-lying, and easily overlooked, their mounds blending into rough pasture or the margins of boggy ground.

The record for this particular site goes back to 1934, when Bowman noted a fulacht fiadh on land belonging to a J. Dennehy. Beyond that single reference, the precise location has not been established. The site sits in that uncomfortable category of monuments that are known to have existed, or to exist still, but whose exact whereabouts have slipped from the documentary record. Whether the mound survives intact beneath the soil, has been levelled by agricultural activity, or was simply never relocated after that original observation, cannot be said with confidence.