A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking or heating site, typically consisting of a trough dug into the ground beside a water source, with stones heated in a fire and dropped into the water to bring it to the boil. What remains above ground is usually a horseshoe-shaped mound of the spent, shattered stones. This particular example sits roughly 200 metres northeast of a second fulacht fiadh in the same area, which is unusual enough to suggest the vicinity was used repeatedly, across perhaps a long span of time.

The site may have a small footnote in local scholarship. Writing in 1923, a researcher named Power noted a feature in the area described as a small lios, meaning a ringfort or enclosure, which he suggested had given its name to the townland of Raheen, a placename deriving from the Irish word for a small earthwork or fort. Power observed that it was already nearly destroyed at that point, and the description fits closely enough that some have considered this mound and Power's lios to be one and the same site, misidentified by type or confused by the degree of decay. Whether or not that identification is correct, by the time the site was formally recorded it was already heavily overgrown, leaving little more than the eroded outline of what had once been a deliberate construction in the foothills.