These sites, found in their thousands across Ireland, are generally understood to be Bronze Age cooking places, where stones were heated in a fire and dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The mound that typically remains is the accumulated debris of that process, cracked and fire-blackened stone dumped repeatedly over what may have been generations of use. This particular example measures fourteen metres in length and eight metres in width, a modest but legible footprint in a field that has otherwise been thoroughly modernised.

When the site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1935, it appeared as a circular mound sitting beside a stream, which would have been the water source essential to the whole operation. That stream has since been drained, erasing the hydrological logic that once made this spot a sensible place to stop and cook. The surrounding land has been reclaimed for agriculture, so what survives is essentially a dark stain in improved pasture, the burnt spread persisting in the soil long after the mound itself has been levelled or dispersed by ploughing and land management over the decades.