It is trapezoidal in shape, about six and a half metres long and up to three and a half metres wide, and rises only some seventy centimetres above the surrounding ground. Beneath the turf, it is composed almost entirely of burnt material, the characteristic signature of a fulacht fia.

A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking or heating site found widely across Ireland, typically Bronze Age in origin, though some examples span a broader period. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring the water to a boil, perhaps for cooking meat, perhaps for other industrial or social purposes. The repeated heating and cooling shattered the stones, and the discarded fragments accumulated over time into the horseshoe-shaped or, as here, trapezoidal mounds that survive in the landscape today. The proximity of this particular example to a stream is entirely typical; a reliable water source was essential to the process, and fulachta fiadh are found clustered near watercourses and boggy ground across the country. There are thousands of recorded examples in Ireland, making them one of the most common monument types, yet individually they are easy to overlook, especially when reduced, as here, to a modest grassy rise in open pasture.