The slight mound, roughly ten metres across, is made up of burnt and fire-cracked stone mixed with charcoal, the accumulated debris of repeated use over what may have been centuries.

This type of site is known as a fulacht fia, a term referring to ancient outdoor cooking places found in their thousands across Ireland. The typical method involved heating stones in a fire until they were hot enough to boil water when dropped into a trough, usually dug into the ground and lined with timber or stone. The cracked, discarded stones piled up over time into the horseshoe-shaped or rounded mounds that survive today. The site at Baunoge sits on a south-east-facing slope in what was once boggy ground, now reclaimed as pasture. That detail matters: fulachtaí fia are almost always found close to water or in wet, low-lying areas, since a reliable water source was essential to how they functioned. The boggy terrain here would once have provided exactly that.