Where a low mound of charred stones and black earth once rose from the pasture of Drummond in County Wexford, there was simply grass, the archaeology absorbed back into a level, unremarkable field. The only documentary trace of it as a standing feature comes from a 1939 field record and a single edition of an Ordnance Survey map, the 1940 six-inch sheet, on which it was marked before quietly disappearing from the landscape and, eventually, from easy notice.

The mound, when recorded in 1939, was oval in shape, roughly 11.5 metres east to west and 7.5 metres north to south, and rose only about half a metre above the surrounding ground. Its composition, charred stones and dark, carbon-rich earth, is the classic signature of a fulacht fia. These are Bronze Age cooking sites, found in their thousands across Ireland, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stones that accumulated over repeated use. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to boiling point, though some researchers have proposed other uses including textile processing or bathing. The slight topographic depression noted about 50 metres to the east of this mound may be a remnant of such a trough or a naturally wet hollow that made the location attractive in the first place. A second fulacht fia lies approximately 100 metres to the north-west, which is not unusual; these sites often cluster in low-lying, water-adjacent ground.