The location is quietly unexpected. Fulachtaí fia, the plural of this Irish term, are prehistoric cooking sites typically found in low-lying, wet ground close to streams or marshy areas, where water could be easily collected and heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into a trough. Finding one near a high point rather than a valley floor is the kind of detail that prompts questions without offering easy answers.

By the time it was recorded, the site had already been largely ploughed out, meaning agricultural activity had dispersed much of the characteristic horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and shattered stone that would once have marked it. The identification is credited to field work noted by Mitchell in 1990 and to information supplied by Professor P. Woodman, a well-known figure in Irish prehistoric archaeology. These cooking sites are generally associated with the Bronze Age, though some have earlier or later origins, and their precise function, whether for cooking meat, processing hides, bathing, or some combination of these, has been debated for decades. That this one was described as large, even in its ploughed-out condition, suggests it saw considerable use at some point.