These sites, found in their thousands across the country, are generally interpreted as outdoor cooking places, where stones were heated in fire and then dropped into water-filled troughs to bring them to the boil. The trough itself is long gone here, but the characteristic spread of fire-cracked, heat-shattered stone remains, disturbed and spread across an area of roughly thirty metres by ten.

The site came to light in 1990, not through any planned excavation but as a side-effect of construction work on a riverside walkway through the demesne. The ground yielded a badly truncated piece of timber, small in its surviving dimensions, as well as further timber of late medieval date found a short distance to the north. The proximity of these finds suggests the area saw repeated human activity across a considerable span of time, though the fulacht fia itself is understood to belong to the broader prehistoric tradition associated with such monuments, typically dated to the Bronze Age. The Awbeg River, a tributary of the Blackwater made quietly famous by Edmund Spenser who lived nearby at Kilcolman Castle in the late sixteenth century, would have made this a practical location; fulachta fiadh are almost always found near water, which was essential to how they functioned.

The demesne setting means the site sits within managed parkland rather than open countryside, and its visibility on the ground today is likely limited given the disturbance recorded at the time of discovery.