It is the kind of site that appears on no tourist map, that most people will never see, and that exists in the landscape only as a faint depression in a field, if that.

Burnt mounds are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, typically consisting of accumulated heaps of fire-cracked stone, charcoal, and ash, the debris of repeated heating and water-boiling, most likely for cooking or bathing. This particular example came to light in 2016 during archaeological testing carried out ahead of a proposed expansion of a nearby commercial quarry. What the testing revealed was a substantial layer, roughly 24 metres north to south and 9 metres east to west, lying between half a metre and a full metre below the present ground surface. Emerging at an angle from the centre of that burnt layer were four narrow, stake-like timbers set close together in a short row, possibly the remains of a trough or some kind of wattle structure, the sort of simple wooden framework that would have held water for heating with fire-warmed stones. A few metres to the north, archaeologists also identified a possible togher, a timber trackway of the type commonly laid across boggy ground in prehistoric and early medieval Ireland to allow passage through otherwise impassable terrain. The two features together suggest a small pocket of sustained human activity at the edge of the bog, at a date that remains unconfirmed given that no full excavation took place.

The site was recorded, protected with geotextile sheeting, and excluded from the quarry development, which means it remains intact underfoot, waiting for some future investigation that may or may not come.