The mound of burnt stone and charcoal that once marked it has been levelled, and there is now no visible surface trace. What remains is essentially a coordinate and a memory, preserved in the archaeological record rather than in the ground.

A fulacht fia, sometimes spelled fulacht fiadh, is one of the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland. The name is usually translated loosely as "deer roast" or "cooking place of the wild," and the monuments typically survive as horseshoe-shaped mounds of fire-cracked stone, built up over centuries of repeated use beside a water source. The method involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, a practical technique for cooking meat in large quantities. The site at Carhoo was one of at least two in close proximity; a second fulacht fiadh was recorded roughly thirty metres to the south-east, suggesting this was an area of repeated or sustained prehistoric activity. The Carhoo example was known from local information rather than excavation, and by the time it was formally noted, the defining mound had already been removed, most likely through agricultural levelling over the course of farming the land.

Because there is nothing left to see at the surface, this site is less a destination than a reminder of how much of the Irish prehistoric landscape has been quietly absorbed back into the fields. The neighbouring monument to the south-east may offer more, though the proximity of the two sites is itself the detail worth sitting with.