It is easy to walk past without a second thought, but the fractured stone visible along its southern edge is a clue to what this place once was. This is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone accumulated beside a water source. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, though debate continues about whether cooking was always the primary purpose. What makes this particular example quietly remarkable is that it does not stand alone: two more fulachtaí fia lie within a hundred metres of it, suggesting this corner of the island saw repeated or communal use over whatever period these sites were active.

The monument itself forms a U-shaped mound, open to the north-east, measuring roughly 8.25 metres on its longer axis and 6.6 metres on the shorter. At its highest, on the north-western side, it rises to only about 0.45 metres above the surrounding ground. The two arms of the U are almost separate from one another, joined by a saddle-like depression rather than a solid bank. The south-eastern arm has been partially dug away at some point, leaving a shallow crater along its southern side and exposing the heat-fractured stone beneath the grass. A small boulder, around 0.4 metres long, rests on the western slope. A geophysical survey carried out in 1993 mapped the monument but, as noted by researchers Slater and Kulessa, produced little new information beyond what surface examination had already suggested.