That density alone sets the place apart. Fulachta fiadh are prehistoric cooking sites, typically dated to the Bronze Age, and they work on a consistent principle: stones are heated in a fire, dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, and the cracked, spent stone is then discarded in a heap. It is those heaps, dark with charcoal and shattered rock, that survive in the ground long after everything else has gone.

The particular mound recorded here measures eight metres north to south and six metres east to west, and local knowledge suggests it once stood around half a metre high before being levelled, presumably during the reclamation of the surrounding land for agriculture. What remains is barely discernible at ground level, a low spread of burnt material that would be easy to walk across without noticing. The four neighbouring sites in the same field have fared similarly. The concentration of five such monuments in one location is unusual, and raises questions about repeated activity over time, or perhaps the organisation of communal work, though the notes offer no further detail on excavation or finds that might help answer them.