It is easy to walk past without a second glance. What it represents, however, is one of the most common and still somewhat mysterious monument types in the Irish landscape: a fulacht fia, the remains of a prehistoric cooking site where stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The cracked, fire-shattered stones were raked aside after each use, and it is that accumulated debris, dark and cindery, that forms the distinctive crescent-shaped mound visible today.

The site was noted by Bowman in 1934, who recorded it as one of three fulachta fiadh in the same townland, a concentration that suggests the area saw repeated or sustained use over time, likely during the Bronze Age when these sites were most prevalent across Ireland. The horseshoe or kidney shape is characteristic of the type, with the curved mound wrapping around three sides of where the trough would have sat. At Meens, the mound's opening faces west, a detail that may reflect the practical logic of drainage or the local topography, though the precise reasons such sites were oriented in particular directions are not fully understood. The fact that three were recorded within a single townland hints at either a community that returned to this landscape over generations, or a period of particularly intensive activity that left its mark in several spots within a compact area.