It measures roughly eight metres along its longer axis and rises less than a metre from the surrounding ground, its gently sloping sides covered in sod and its flat top giving little obvious indication of what lies beneath: a compacted mass of burnt material, the characteristic signature of a fulacht fia.

A fulacht fia is a Bronze Age cooking site, typically consisting of a trough dug into the ground, a nearby water source, and a mound of fire-cracked stones that accumulated as heated rocks were used repeatedly to boil water. The stones fracture and become useless after a few heatings, so the mound grows steadily over time, preserving a record of repeated use across what may have been centuries. The site at Uragh sits on the north-east bank of a river, which would have provided the water supply essential to the whole process. What makes the location particularly notable is that it does not stand alone: two further examples, one confirmed and one possible, lie adjacent to the east-south-east, suggesting this stretch of riverbank above Lough Inchiquin was a place people returned to with some regularity during prehistory. Clusters of fulachta fia are not unheard of in Ireland, but they remain quietly arresting evidence of organised, repeated activity in landscapes that now feel remote and undisturbed.