These are fulachtaí fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in great numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound built up from fire-cracked stones discarded after repeated use. The method is thought to have involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, a surprisingly efficient technique. Here, each mound measures roughly two metres by one and a half, rising only about thirty centimetres from the ground, with a central depression where the trough would have been.

What sets this pair apart is how closely they sit together. The two monuments are nearly conjoined, similar enough in shape and dimension to suggest either simultaneous construction or use by the same group over time. The location follows a pattern common to fulachtaí fia across the country: low-lying, wet ground, and immediate access to running water, in this case a stream just two metres to the north. The marshy hollow between two sloping hillocks would have provided exactly the kind of damp, sheltered conditions the sites typically favour. By 1988, the surrounding land had been planted with forestry, but a clearing with a buffer zone of around ten metres was maintained around the monuments, preserving them within an otherwise transformed landscape.