It measures roughly six metres by four and a half, rises to about eighty centimetres, and is composed almost entirely of burnt material beneath a covering of grass. To pass it without knowing what it was would be easy enough.

The mound is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in very large numbers across Ireland, particularly from the Bronze Age onwards. The name, loosely translated, refers to a cooking place associated with wild game, though their exact purpose has long been debated; some researchers have proposed uses ranging from textile processing to bathing. The typical arrangement involved a trough dug into the ground, filled with water, and heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into it. Those shattered stones were then discarded in a heap beside the trough, and it is precisely that accumulation of heat-fractured, blackened stone that forms the characteristic horseshoe or oval mound seen at sites like this one. The position here, on sloping ground overlooking a river valley, follows a pattern common to many fulachta fiadh across Munster; proximity to a water source was a practical necessity, and low-lying or gently sloping ground near a stream was the preferred setting.