To the casual eye it might pass for a natural rise in the ground, but the material beneath is burnt, the characteristic dark, crumbly residue of repeated heating and quenching that identifies it as a fulacht fia. These sites, found in their thousands across Ireland, are the remains of prehistoric cooking places, or possibly bathing or industrial sites, where stones were heated in fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The shattered, fire-cracked stones that accumulated over centuries of use form the distinctive horseshoe-shaped or circular mounds that survive to this day.

This particular example was recorded by Bowman in 1934, who noted it was already levelled by that point and situated on land belonging to a P. Horgan. The fact that it had been flattened even by the 1930s makes its survival as any kind of visible feature at all quietly remarkable. What remains is modest but legible, a circular spread of scorched material holding its outline in the grass, patient and unannounced.