A section of burnt spread, roughly four metres in length, appeared in the raw cut of the earth. Burnt spreads, sometimes called fulachta fia, are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland; they are the accumulated debris of repeated episodes of fire and water, typically the cracked and blackened stones discarded after being used to heat water in a trough. They tend to sit quietly beneath the surface, revealing themselves only when the ground is broken.

This particular site was recorded by archaeologist Tony Miller, who noted its position in an area of young forestry just to the west of Carrigmount. What gives the location a certain texture is the nearby presence of a butter path, an old droving and trading route used to transport firkins of salt butter to market, which crosses neighbouring Shehy Beg just to the south of the site. The proximity is probably coincidental, but it places the exposed archaeology in a landscape that was clearly in use across many different periods, the prehistoric and the early modern quietly overlapping on the same ridge. The full extent of the burnt spread cannot be determined; no mound is visible on either side of the track, so the deposit may run further in both directions beneath the forestry floor, its true dimensions still hidden.