The site was never formally excavated or confirmed; it exists in the record largely because a landowner recognised what he had been unwittingly disturbing, and said so. He had been spreading material from the mound across the surrounding pasture, the kind of practical land management that has quietly erased countless ancient sites across Ireland.

The feature in question is a possible fulacht fia, a class of monument found in enormous numbers across the Irish countryside, most dating to the Bronze Age. The typical fulacht fia consists of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal-rich earth, built up beside a water source over repeated use. The leading interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it rapidly to the boil, making these sites ancient cooking or processing places, though their exact purposes remain debated. The black, scorched character of the soil and the shattered stone are usually what survive. At Drombohilly, the site sits on the northern bank of a stream, directly west of the Kenmare to Lauragh road, and the burnt material the landowner described spreading is consistent with precisely this kind of deposit. A further burnt spread lies roughly 65 metres to the north-west, suggesting the area may have seen repeated or related activity in antiquity.

The site cannot currently be inspected. The planting of evergreen trees and the accumulation of undergrowth have made access to the ground surface effectively impossible, and there is no visible monument remaining to find. Its significance now is less as a place to visit than as a reminder of how much archaeology survives, or fails to survive, through the ordinary decisions of the people who farm and manage the land above it.