It would be easy to walk past without a second glance, and for a long time the plough did exactly that, which is also what eventually brought it to light. What the disturbed earth revealed is a fulacht fia, the remains of a type of ancient cooking site found in considerable numbers across Ireland, typically dating to the Bronze Age. The usual form involved heating stones in a fire, dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, and using the resulting heat to cook meat. Over time, the cracked and discarded stones accumulated into a distinctive mound, often horseshoe-shaped and scorched dark by repeated burning.

This particular example measures roughly nine metres along its longer axis and six metres across, and it lies some 35 metres to the south-south-west of a second fulacht fia at the same townland. The proximity of the two sites is quietly interesting. Fulachtaí fia are rarely isolated features in the landscape; they tend to cluster near water sources, and finding two within easy walking distance of one another suggests repeated or overlapping use of the same general area over time. Here, though, the site has been reduced to little more than a smear of evidence, the mound long since flattened, the stones scattered and fragmented, the whole feature sitting nearly flush with the field surface after years of agricultural disturbance.