The site is recorded as a burnt mound, a type of monument found widely across Ireland and Britain, typically consisting of a spread of heat-shattered stones and darkened, charcoal-rich soil left behind after repeated episodes of fire-setting and water-heating. The working theory for most such sites is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, a process used for cooking, bathing, or other activities requiring sustained heat. Over time the discarded, cracked stones accumulated into a mound.

At Ballymot, local knowledge rather than field evidence is what keeps this particular site on the record. The spread was described as somewhere between ten and twenty metres in diameter, which would place it at the larger end of modest, but by the time anyone looked carefully in 2004, the plough had apparently done its work and nothing visible remained at the surface. What makes the location more intriguing is its relationship to the surrounding landscape. A standing stone sits roughly eighty metres to the east, in the same field, and a second possible burnt mound lies about a hundred metres to the southwest of that stone. Whether these features were ever connected in use or simply accumulated in the same workable terrain over centuries is impossible to say, but their proximity gives the area a quiet density of prehistoric activity that the surface gives no hint of today.