The site is a fulacht fia, a type of monument found widely across Ireland and typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stones beside a trough, where water was heated by dropping in stones fired in a nearby hearth. Most date to the Bronze Age. This particular example sits on a south-west-facing slope in low-lying, reclaimed ground, and has left no mark at the surface that a casual visitor would recognise.

What makes the spot more than ordinarily interesting is its company. In 1955, a researcher named Prendergast recorded a cluster of similar sites in the immediate vicinity, with at least five further fulachta fia lying within roughly 180 metres of this one. Two of those nearby examples, designated KK010-067002 and KK010-067005, were partially excavated by Prendergast, whose findings are noted in the same publication. A concentration of fulachta fia this dense in one small area suggests sustained and repeated activity in the landscape over time, possibly reflecting the usefulness of the terrain close to the river for the water supply that these sites required. Whether the sites were in use simultaneously or represent successive episodes of activity across generations is the kind of question that partial excavation can raise without fully resolving.