It measures just 4.4 metres north to south and rises barely 0.7 metres, eroded now and easy to overlook. Two boulders lean against its western side. This is a burnt mound, a type of prehistoric site found widely across Ireland and Britain, generally understood to represent the repeated heating of stones in a fire and their subsequent plunging into water, perhaps for cooking, bathing, or industrial processes. The exact purpose is still debated among archaeologists, but the distinctive signature, fractured stone and heat-blackened soil accumulated over many uses, is unmistakable.

What makes this particular spot worth pausing over is its company. A second burnt mound of the same type lies only six metres to the east, and approximately fifty metres to the south-east stands a standing stone. Whether these features were in use at the same time, or accumulated across generations of activity on this hillside, is unknown. But the clustering suggests that this stretch of the north-facing slopes above the Ardgroom Outward valley was not simply passed through; it was returned to. Burnt mounds of this kind are typically dated to the Bronze Age, placing activity here somewhere in a broad span between roughly 2000 and 500 BC, though without excavation a more precise date cannot be assigned to this site.