There is no mound to speak of, no visible earthwork, just a dark stain in the soil where something very old was destroyed a few decades before archaeologists could record it properly. What it marks is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking or processing site found in great numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a trough, a hearth, and a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone left over from repeated use. Stones would be heated in a fire and dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, cracking in the process and accumulating over time into the characteristic burnt mounds that survive, when they do survive, as low grassy humps.

This particular site was levelled during drainage works around 1973, a fact recorded from local information by Walsh in 1985. By the time it was formally documented, only the spread of burnt material remained visible at the surface. What makes the location quietly notable, beyond the loss of the mound itself, is its setting within a small cluster of related sites. Two further fulachta fiadh lie downstream to the north-west along the same watercourse, and a fourth sits upstream to the south-east. The grouping along a single stream is not unusual for fulachta fiadh, which tend to cluster near reliable water sources, but four recorded sites within a short stretch of the same valley does suggest this corridor was in repeated use during prehistory, its stream providing the one essential ingredient the process demanded.