This is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in their thousands across Ireland, typically identified by a crescent or horseshoe of burnt, fire-cracked stone that accumulated beside a water trough. The mound here measures roughly ten and a half metres north to south and just over nine metres east to west, rising only about forty centimetres from the surrounding ground, with an opening of around three metres facing northwest and a slight rise across that gap.

What makes this particular site quietly remarkable is not the mound itself but its company. Within a radius of roughly 130 metres, five further fulachta fiadh have been recorded, clustered across the same low, wet ground. The nearest sits only 30 metres to the southeast; the furthest, around 130 metres away. Whether these represent repeated seasonal use of the same favourable spot across many generations, or activity by a larger community at roughly the same period, is difficult to say without excavation. Adding another layer to the landscape, a ring-barrow, a circular earthen burial monument of the Bronze Age, lies approximately 50 metres to the south. The concentration of monuments suggests this apparently unremarkable patch of north Cork was, at some point in prehistory, a place people returned to consistently and for more than one purpose.