Measuring roughly 14 metres north to south and 9 metres east to west, it is the kind of site that reads as almost nothing from a distance yet represents a remarkably persistent feature of the Irish prehistoric landscape.

What lies here is a fulacht fia, a type of cooking or processing site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically dating from the Bronze Age though some examples are older or later. The usual form consists of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone beside a water source, with a timber-lined trough nearby that would have been filled with water and heated by dropping stones from a fire into it. The proximity of a stream, recorded at around 8 metres to the north-east of this site, fits that pattern precisely. Water was the essential ingredient, and fulachtaí fia cluster reliably near reliable sources of it. The burnt and fragmented stone that accumulates over repeated use gives these sites their characteristic dark, cindery appearance in ploughed or disturbed ground, which is precisely how this one presents itself.