This is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking or processing site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically identified by the distinctive crescent of burnt and shattered stone that accumulates around a central hearth and trough. The mound here faces west, its opening measuring about two and a half metres across, and the whole structure stretches roughly fifteen metres from north to south and just over eight metres east to west.

The conventional interpretation of a fulacht fia holds that our Bronze Age ancestors would heat stones in a fire, then drop them into a water-filled trough to bring the water to a boil, cooking meat or processing other materials. The stones fracture with the repeated heating and quenching, and over time the discarded fragments accumulate into the characteristic scorched mounds we see today. This particular example was recorded in pasture near the base of a west-facing slope, with a marshy area lying about twenty metres to the northwest, which is entirely typical: fulachta fiadh cluster around wetlands and watercourses, a pattern that reflects their dependence on a reliable water supply. A quarry depression on the southern side of the mound, measuring roughly four metres by three, suggests that material was extracted here, possibly to line or construct the trough itself. The site was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the archaeological record in August 2011.

The mound sits in private farmland, so access would require permission from the landowner, and the terrain around it is likely to be soft underfoot, particularly given the marshy ground nearby. There is no formal marking or interpretation at the site. Visitors with a general interest in prehistoric Ireland may find it more useful to approach this one as part of a broader awareness of the type, since fulachta fiadh are so numerous in Munster that once you know what to look for, the low dark mounds begin to appear in fields and hedgerows with surprising regularity. The slight curve of the Kildimo example, its westward opening, and the still-legible quarry hollow on its southern edge make it a reasonably legible specimen of a monument that tends, in truth, to be more evocative in explanation than in appearance.