That, in a way, is exactly the point. Beneath the surface, invisible to anyone walking above it, lies a spread of burnt stone and charcoal roughly ten metres across, sitting just north of a small stream fed by surface water. The landowner noticed it; without that, it would almost certainly have passed unrecorded.

The site is believed to be a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking place found in great numbers across Ireland, typically dating from the Bronze Age, though some examples extend into the early medieval period. The basic principle involves heating stones in a fire, dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, and using that heat to cook meat. The discarded burnt and shattered stones accumulate over time into a characteristic horseshoe-shaped mound, usually dark with charcoal and sitting close to a water source. This site follows that pattern closely: the proximity to the stream and the composition of the spread, burnt stone mixed with charcoal, are both consistent with the type. The flat grassland around it would have offered an unremarkable setting in any period, which may partly explain why it survived without disturbance long enough to be noticed at all.