Its WNW side has already been cut away, leaving a drop of roughly two metres down to the river's surface, and a holly tree at the western end has added its own slow disturbance to the archaeology. What remains measures eleven metres northeast to southwest, just over seven metres in the perpendicular direction, and rises to a maximum height of 1.25 metres. It does not look like much from a distance, but it is the kind of place that rewards attention to detail.

The mound is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in large numbers across Ireland, typically dating from the Bronze Age. The working principle was straightforward: stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil. Over repeated use, the stones cracked and shattered, and the discarded fragments accumulated around the trough into the characteristic horseshoe shape that survives at sites like this one. The black soil and burnt stone fragments that make up this mound are exactly that accumulated debris. The depression at the northeast side, measuring 2.4 metres by 2.4 metres, is almost certainly the remains of the trough itself. A large stone flag, partly exposed at the trough's eastern edge, may once have formed part of a revetment, a lining intended to stabilise the trough's walls, and earthfast boulders a short distance to the northeast may have served a similar structural purpose. The site was first described in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, Corca Dhuibhne. One further detail anchors it precisely in its landscape: a wall running north from the mound marks the boundary between the townlands of Ballyhoneen and Kilmore, a boundary that otherwise follows the centre of the river itself, suggesting that the mound was already a fixed reference point when that line was drawn.