A fulacht fia is a Bronze Age cooking or processing site, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone built up around a trough, where water was repeatedly brought to the boil by dropping fire-heated stones into it. What makes this particular example notable is not grandeur but its quiet persistence: even after the mound was levelled around 1983, the dark spread of burnt material and a slight depression at the centre remain faintly legible beneath the grass.

The site was first formally recorded by Bowman in 1934, at which point it lay on land belonging to a J. Hartnett. That early documentation proved useful, since the physical form of the monument was subsequently altered by levelling, leaving later visitors reliant on that prior record to understand what had once been more visible. A second fulacht fia lies approximately thirty metres to the north, a proximity that is not unusual; these sites often cluster in low-lying, water-retentive ground, reflecting the practical requirements of whatever activities, whether cooking, textile processing, or something else entirely, took place there during the Bronze Age.