It measures roughly ten metres long, eight metres wide, and a metre in height, and it is composed almost entirely of burnt and fire-cracked stone. This is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically dated to the Bronze Age. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring the water to boiling point, used for cooking meat or, as some researchers have proposed, for brewing or textile production. The horseshoe shape is characteristic of the type, formed by the gradual accumulation of discarded burnt stone thrown clear of the trough after each use.

What makes this particular example quietly notable is its proximity to another fulacht fia, located approximately 120 metres to the north-west. Whether both sites were in use simultaneously, or whether one represents a later return to an already-favoured spot near reliable water, is not recorded. The clustering of fulachtaí fia is not unusual in the Irish landscape; they tend to appear near streams and in low-lying, waterlogged ground, precisely the kind of terrain that also makes them difficult to spot until you are almost upon them. This one is described as overgrown, which is the common condition of such sites, the burnt mound material being nutrient-poor and tending to support rough vegetation that further obscures the already subtle form.