A fulacht fia, the term used for the distinctive burnt mound sites found across Ireland and Britain, would once have been visible here as a low, horseshoe-shaped spread of fire-cracked stones and charcoal-dark earth. Thousands of these sites survive across the Irish landscape, most dating from the Bronze Age, and they are understood to represent places where water was repeatedly boiled, likely for cooking, by dropping heated stones into a trough or pit. This one, however, has fared less well than most.

The landowner recalled seeing an area of blackened stones on a slight rise, sitting on a gentle south-facing slope about twenty-five metres north of a stream, the kind of proximity to water that is almost universal among fulacht fia sites. But years of tillage and the planting of sugar beet have done what centuries of quiet weathering did not, and no surface trace now survives. What the plough turns up is not record enough to reconstruct a monument, only enough to confirm that something was once there, and is now largely gone.