A fulacht fia once stood here, one of those low horseshoe-shaped mounds of fire-cracked stone and charcoal that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands, thought to represent Bronze Age cooking or processing sites where water was boiled by dropping heated stones into a trough. This particular example has been swallowed entirely by agricultural improvement, leaving no surface trace.

What makes the site more interesting is its context. It belongs to a cluster of six such monuments spread across two adjacent townlands, three in Ballysallagh (Tuite) and three in Balroe. The grouping suggests this stretch of Westmeath was a place of repeated, organised activity during prehistory, rather than isolated or accidental use. Aerial photography from November 2011 confirmed that by that point, no physical remains were visible at ground level, the land having been modified to the point where the monument survives only as a mapped location rather than a landscape feature.