It is, to the untrained eye, easy to dismiss as a natural rise in the field. In fact it is a fulacht fia, the remains of a prehistoric cooking site, where stones were heated in fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The distinctive mound is simply the accumulated debris of thousands of those spent, cracked stones, discarded after each use over what may have been centuries.

The site was recorded by Bowman in 1934, at which point the land belonged to a J. Hartnett. What makes this particular location quietly remarkable is not just the scale of the mound but the fact that it does not stand alone. A second fulacht fia lies roughly 30 metres to the south, suggesting that this patch of ground beside its spring was returned to repeatedly, or used by more than one group across overlapping periods. The proximity of a natural water source is no coincidence; a reliable spring was a practical requirement for this kind of activity, and such sites cluster around wet, low-lying ground throughout Ireland. The pairing here, two monuments so close together in the same field, points to a landscape that was, in some sense, purposefully organised around this spot.