Its opening faces west, and a hollow scooped into its north-eastern side hints that material has been removed from it at some point, whether by farmers clearing ground or by earlier, less documented hands. It is one of two such features in close proximity here, the two mounds adjoining one another near a well, which is itself the kind of clustering that archaeologists have come to expect from these sites.

The mound is a fulacht fia, a type of monument found in enormous numbers across Ireland, particularly in low-lying or waterlogged ground. The term is loosely translated as "cooking place of the deer," though the exact purpose of these sites has been debated for decades. The dominant theory holds that they were used for boiling water, achieved by heating stones in a fire and then dropping them into a water-filled trough; the repeatedly fractured, burnt stone accumulates over time into the distinctive horseshoe shape that survives at sites like this one. They date most commonly to the Bronze Age, roughly 2000 to 500 BC, though some have produced dates outside that range. The presence of a well nearby would have made this a practical spot for exactly that kind of sustained, water-dependent activity, and the fact that a second fulacht fia stands immediately adjacent suggests the location was returned to, perhaps across generations.