There is no mound, no hollow, no scatter of burnt stone visible at the surface; the only indication that anything lies here at all is a piece of local knowledge, passed down to the effect that the south-western corner of a field locally called the "lios field" was once the site of a fulacht fia.

A fulacht fia, sometimes written fulacht fiadh, is a type of outdoor cooking or heating site found widely across Ireland and dating mostly to the Bronze Age. The typical form involves a trough, often timber-lined, that would be filled with water and heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it. The spent stones were piled up into a horseshoe-shaped mound around the trough, and it is usually these distinctive burnt-mound spreads that survive in the landscape and give the site away. Here, if the local tradition is accurate, whatever physical trace once existed has since been levelled or buried beneath centuries of agricultural use. The name of the field, the "lios field", carries its own quiet interest; a lios is a ringfort or enclosure, suggesting that local memory has attached the name of one monument type to a field that may, in fact, contain another entirely.

The mountain's unusual name adds a further layer of curiosity. Quitrent refers to a fixed annual payment made by a tenant in lieu of labour services, a feature of post-medieval land tenure arrangements in Ireland, and it is uncommon to find it preserved in a placename at this scale. Whether the name reflects a specific historical land arrangement in this part of north Cork is not recorded here, but it sits oddly and memorably against the much older archaeology beneath the grass.