The mound is barely a third of a metre high, so unassuming that a casual walker might step over it without a second thought. Yet its shape, a horseshoe roughly fourteen metres across its longer axis, is immediately recognisable to anyone familiar with prehistoric Ireland's most common archaeological monument.

A fulacht fia, pronounced roughly "foolacht fee-a", is a Bronze Age cooking site, typically consisting of a trough dug into the ground beside a water source, a hearth for heating stones, and the accumulated mound of those same stones once they had cracked and cooled beyond further use. The process was straightforward: stones were heated in fire, dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it rapidly to the boil, and used to cook meat or other food. Over time, the discarded burnt and fragmented stone built up into the characteristic horseshoe shape that archaeologists now recognise across Ireland in their thousands. The Currymount example follows this pattern closely, its opening of just over two metres facing northwest, the hollow of the horseshoe marking where the trough once sat. The material forming the mound is that familiar dark, fire-cracked aggregate that gives these sites their distinctively scorched appearance even millennia later.