These monuments typically consist of a mound of fire-cracked stones accumulated beside a water source, the stones having been heated and dropped into a trough of water to bring it to the boil. They are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, yet this one is quieter than most, its physical presence reduced almost to nothing.

At some point around 1979, the mound was levelled, most likely during agricultural work, as happened to countless similar features during the mid-twentieth century when land improvement schemes reshaped farmland across the country. Before that clearance, the site would have sat on the eastern bank of a stream, the water source that made such a location practical for its prehistoric users. What survives now is the scatter of burnt material beneath and around the surface, the residue of repeated heating and quenching over what may have been centuries of use. Fulachtaí fia are generally dated to the Bronze Age, though some sites show evidence of earlier or later activity, and their precise function has been debated, with cooking, bathing, and textile processing all proposed at various times by archaeologists.