There is nothing to see at this particular spot in Kilmurry, and that is precisely what makes it worth knowing about. At the western foot of a gently sloping pasture, where the ground stays wet, lies the site of a burnt mound, a type of prehistoric feature found in considerable numbers across Ireland and Britain. These monuments typically consist of a mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal-rich soil, the accumulated debris of repeated episodes of heating stones and plunging them into water-filled troughs. The purpose is still debated: cooking, bathing, industrial processing, and communal gathering have all been proposed, and the honest answer is probably that different sites served different functions at different times.

This particular mound came to light not through archaeological excavation but through routine agricultural work. During drainage operations in the early 1980s, a low rise in the wet ground was found to be composed of burnt stone and dark soil, the classic signature of a fulacht fiadh, as these sites are known in Irish. The landowner's account of that discovery is the primary record of the find. No formal excavation followed, and today no visible surface traces survive. The drainage work that revealed the mound almost certainly disturbed or removed much of what remained, leaving a site that exists now mainly as a map reference and a memory of what briefly appeared in the turned earth.