These sites typically involved a trough, a hearth, and a mound of fire-cracked stone built up over repeated use, and they tend to cluster in low-lying, wet ground, often beside streams or in marshy fields. The location here fits that pattern precisely: a wet and marshy field, sitting just north of a major road corridor that has probably seen traffic of one kind or another for millennia.

What makes this particular site unusual is not what survives but how little of it does, and why. During the excavation of a large sump pond for the nearby Ballyseedy Garden Centre, a JCB broke through the deposit and brought it to the surface. What was recorded measured approximately two metres north to south and two metres east to west, but that figure almost certainly reflects the contents of a single machine bucket rather than the original extent of the site. Further isolated pockets of burnt red sandstone were noted in the spoil heap thrown up during the same digging work. Michael Connolly documented the remains during a survey of the Lee Valley area carried out between 1996 and 1997, by which point the archaeology had already been largely displaced from its original context and scattered through the upcast soil.