The sites in question are fulachtaí fia, a type of monument found widely across Ireland, typically dating to the Bronze Age. The basic principle is simple: a trough, usually timber-lined and filled with water, was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it until the water reached cooking temperature. The crescent-shaped mounds of shattered, heat-reddened stone that built up around these troughs over repeated use are what survive in the landscape today.

This particular fulacht fiadh sits on the southern bank of the stream, in uncultivated ground, and was recorded as a mound on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1937. A second mound lies immediately to its west, and a third sits just to the north-east on the opposite bank. The proximity of all three to the same watercourse is typical of the monument type; access to a reliable water supply was essential to the whole process, and low-lying, often boggy ground beside streams is exactly where these sites tend to accumulate. By the time the site was assessed for the archaeological inventory, the vegetation had grown too dense to allow a proper inspection, meaning the physical condition of the mound beneath the overgrowth remained uncertain.