The characteristic feature of these monuments is a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and shattered stone, the debris left behind after repeated cycles of heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. They are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, yet this particular example has a quiet melancholy to it: the mound, which once stood roughly three feet high and measured around twenty-five metres east to west and nine metres north to south, was levelled in 1977.

What survives now is a spread of burnt material, the scorched and fractured stone that accumulates over what may have been centuries of use. The site sits in the kind of waterlogged, low-lying ground that fulachtaí fia favour, close to a natural water source and away from the drier, more cultivated land nearby. The levelling of the mound, recorded through local information rather than any formal intervention, is a reminder of how routinely these sites were altered or removed before their archaeological significance was widely understood. Many were dismissed as "burnt mounds" with no obvious connection to the past, or simply treated as inconvenient lumps in otherwise workable land.