It measures roughly five and a half metres north to south, six and a half metres east to west, and rises only about forty-five centimetres from the surrounding ground. That modesty is deceptive. What looks like a slight swelling in a field is almost certainly the remains of a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically dating from the Bronze Age. The basic principle involved heating stones in a fire, dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, and cooking meat by immersion. Over repeated use, the cracked and spent stones were raked out and piled beside the trough, forming exactly the kind of low, scorched mound visible here.

The site was first recorded by Bowman in 1934, noted in that publication as lying on land belonging to a Miss Margaret O'Brien. That single line of attribution fixes the mound at a particular moment in time, a quiet field in rural Cork in the 1930s, still largely intact and sitting in agricultural land much as it had for thousands of years before. Fulachtaí fia are among the most numerous archaeological monument types in Ireland, yet individual examples like this one tend to attract little attention precisely because they are so common and so unassuming. Their very ordinariness is part of what makes them interesting; they are traces of repeated, practical, communal activity rather than ceremony or display.