It is horseshoe-shaped, roughly ten metres across, and nearly two and a half metres high. Beneath the turf, the mound is composed of burnt material, the accumulated debris of repeated, intensive heating over what was likely centuries of prehistoric use. This is a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking site found in large numbers across Ireland, typically Bronze Age in origin, and almost always positioned beside a water source. The usual interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, with the cracked and shattered stones discarded into the characteristic mound that remains. The opening of this particular example, about four and a half metres wide, faces south-west.

The site overlooks the valley of the Feabunaun stream, and the mound sits on the north-east bank of a stream, precisely where the model for such sites would predict. Around it, faint traces of relict field boundaries survive in the pasture, suggesting that this slope was once part of a more extensively managed agricultural landscape. What makes the location especially notable is the proximity of a second fulacht fia, recorded just twenty metres to the south-east. Two such sites this close together raises questions that archaeology has not fully answered: whether they were used simultaneously, sequentially, or by different groups entirely. The clustering of fulachtaí fia is not unusual across Ireland, but finding a pair in such close company on a quiet Kerry hillside, both overlooking the same stream valley, gives the place a quiet density of prehistoric activity that the unassuming terrain does little to advertise.