It is a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking site found in considerable numbers across Ireland, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered, fire-blackened stone. The usual interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, perhaps for cooking meat, though some researchers have proposed uses ranging from textile production to bathing. The Dromalour example measures thirteen metres north to south and sixteen metres east to west, a modest but well-preserved spread of burnt material beneath its grass covering.

The site was recorded by Bowman in 1934, placing its entry into the archaeological literature at a time when systematic survey of such monuments was still relatively early work. Fulachtaí fia, the plural form, are among the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland, yet individual examples like this one rarely attract attention precisely because they are so numerous and so quietly embedded in the working landscape. This one occupies pasture ground, the kind of field that has probably seen continuous agricultural use across many centuries, which makes its survival all the more notable.