It measures roughly eleven metres long, nine and a half metres wide, and less than a metre high, with a slight depression along its northern side. It is, in short, a fulacht fia, one of the most common yet persistently mysterious monument types in the Irish landscape. These are the remnants of ancient cooking sites, Bronze Age in the main, where stones were heated in fire and dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The shattered, heat-cracked stone was then raked aside, and over generations of use it accumulated into the characteristic horseshoe-shaped mound that survives today. The depression at the northern edge of this example likely marks where that trough once sat.

The site was recorded by Bowman in 1934, who noted it as one of two fulachta fiadh on land belonging to a Mr Horgan in the area. That pairing is itself worth noting; such monuments are frequently found in clusters, suggesting repeated use of the same stretch of ground over long periods, perhaps because of a reliable nearby water source. Fulachta fiadh are found in their thousands across Ireland, and Cork has a particularly dense concentration of them, yet individual examples rarely attract much attention precisely because they are so numerous and so unassuming. A scorched mound in a field does not announce itself the way a standing stone or a ringfort does, and yet the accumulated labour it represents, the fuel gathered, the stones cracked and re-cracked, the meals or perhaps the hides processed over many seasons, gives it a quiet weight.