It measures roughly twenty metres by twelve, and rises only about sixty centimetres from the surrounding ground. What it represents, however, is one of the more intriguing categories of monument in the Irish landscape: a fulacht fia, which is essentially the burnt and decomposed debris left behind by a prehistoric cooking site. The typical method involved heating stones in a fire, dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, and then using that heated water to cook meat. The discarded, heat-shattered stones accumulated over time into the distinctive mounds that survive today in their hundreds across Ireland.

When Bowman noted the site in 1934, and again when Broker recorded it in 1937, the mound was described as round in shape, about fifteen feet in diameter and three to four feet high, and already partially removed. That description points to a monument that has continued to diminish over the decades, whether through agricultural activity or simple erosion. The current dimensions, considerably broader than the earlier record suggests, may reflect the spread of material over time rather than any growth in the monument itself. The proximity to a stream is entirely characteristic of fulachtaí fia; a reliable water source was a practical necessity for the cooking process, and the vast majority of these sites are found close to running water or boggy ground.