It is an easy thing to overlook, and that, in part, is the point. What had survived for perhaps three or four thousand years as a low mound was levelled in the mid-1980s, leaving only a spread of burnt material across the ground where a more recognisable feature once stood.

The site had been recorded as a fulacht fiadh, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically found near water sources, consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone built up over centuries of use. The method involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, a process that gradually produces the characteristic mounds of blackened, crumbled stone still found across the Irish landscape in their thousands. This particular example appeared in both the Sites and Monuments Record of 1990 and the Record of Monuments and Places of 1997 under that classification. A field report from the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey noted that the slight rise comprising burnt material had been levelled sometime in the mid-1980s, presumably during agricultural or land-improvement works. The reclassification to a burnt spread reflects how little of the original form now survives; without the diagnostic mound shape, the fulacht fiadh identification can no longer be confirmed with confidence.