Yet beneath that agricultural ground lay the remains of a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking or processing site found across Ireland in considerable numbers, typically identified by a spread of fire-cracked stone and a water-filled trough in which heated stones were dropped to bring liquid to the boil. This one went unnoticed until a pipeline came through.

In 1994, construction work on the BGE Interconnector Gas Pipeline prompted excavations that brought the site to light. Archaeologists uncovered a burnt stone spread measuring 28 metres in length, 21 metres in width, and 21 centimetres in thickness, along with the associated trough that is characteristic of these sites. Once the fill of the trough was removed, a slot and a post-hole were identified, suggesting some form of timber structure had once stood nearby, though its precise function remains a matter of interpretation. The finds were modest but telling: animal bones and a quartz hammerstone, the latter a tool used to fracture and work stone. The site was recorded by Campbell in 1995 and the notes were later compiled by archaeologist Geraldine Stout.

The site itself is not accessible as a visitor destination; it was recorded during pipeline construction and the ground has since returned to agricultural use. What makes it worth knowing about is less the site in isolation and more what it represents in the broader Dublin landscape. Fulachtaí fia are frequently discovered during development work precisely because they were built in low-lying, often waterlogged ground close to water sources, terrain that later generations turned to tillage or grazing. Anyone with an interest in the archaeology of the greater Dublin area would do well to look into the records held by the National Monuments Service, where sites like this one, recorded almost incidentally during infrastructure works, quietly accumulate into a much fuller picture of prehistoric settlement.