It is horseshoe-shaped, open to the east, and measures roughly fourteen metres across, rising about a metre and a quarter from the surrounding ground. On its own, it would be easy to walk past without a second glance. What makes it quietly remarkable is that it is not alone: another of its kind lies just three and a half metres to the west, and a third sits around fifty metres to the north-east.

The mound is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in great numbers across Ireland, particularly dating from the Bronze Age. The typical fulacht fia consisted of a trough, usually timber-lined and filled with water, which was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it. Those shattered, heat-spent stones were then raked aside, and over repeated use they accumulated into the characteristic horseshoe-shaped mound that survives today. The open end of the horseshoe generally marks where the trough itself once sat. Ireland has thousands of these sites, but clusters of three in such close proximity are less common, and their relationship to one another, whether they were used simultaneously, seasonally, or across different periods, is the kind of question that the archaeology alone cannot easily answer.