The monument in question is a fulacht fia, a type of ancient outdoor cooking place typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone left behind after repeated episodes of heating water by dropping hot stones into a trough. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, numbering in the thousands, and yet the one recorded here refuses to show itself clearly.

The site was identified by a man named Will Forbes, and local knowledge held that the field had once been notably wet, the kind of waterlogged ground where fulachta fiadh tend to cluster, since access to water was essential to their function. The field has since been reclaimed and drained. When the site was visited in 2002, what greeted the surveyor was a series of low, ambiguous undulations in the ground, nothing that could be confidently identified as the characteristic mound. The wetness that may have preserved or even shaped the original feature had been managed out of the landscape, and with it, perhaps, the legibility of whatever lies beneath the surface.