It measures roughly twelve and a half metres north to south and nearly eleven metres east to west, rising only about a quarter of a metre above the surrounding ground. That modest profile is characteristic of a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically dating to the Bronze Age. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to boiling point, with the cracked and shattered stones gradually accumulating into the distinctive mound that survives today. The horseshoe or U-shape, open on one side, is the form most commonly encountered, and here the opening faces west.

What gives this particular site a quiet interest is its immediate neighbour. Another fulacht fia lies just 5.4 metres to the south, making the two almost adjacently paired on the same slope. Whether they were used simultaneously, or represent activity at different points across a long span of prehistoric time, is not recorded, but their proximity is unusual enough to notice. The stream running close to the west would have been the practical reason for choosing this ground in the first place; a reliable water source was essential to the whole process, and the slight slope would have aided drainage. A farm road runs along the eastern side of the site, which suggests the mound has survived largely because it sits just outside the more intensively worked ground.