No mound, no hollow, no earthwork marks the spot. The raised areas a curious visitor might notice in the surrounding ground are simply natural undulations in the terrain, nothing more.

The site came to light not through archaeological fieldwork but through the practical business of laying a gas pipeline in 1986. That kind of accidental discovery is, in fact, fairly common with fulachtaí fia, the ancient cooking sites found across Ireland in their thousands. A fulacht fia typically consists of a trough, often timber-lined and dug into the ground, alongside a mound of heat-shattered stone and charcoal. The method involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to boiling point, a process that gradually accumulated the distinctive horseshoe-shaped mounds still visible at many other sites. Most date to the Bronze Age, roughly 1500 to 500 BC, though some are earlier or later. The Crehanagh example was documented in the pipeline excavation records under reference BW/18/1 and published by Gowen in 1988, but the ground above it was left undisturbed, the pasture closed back over it, and today there is nothing at the surface to suggest anything lies beneath.