Roughly eight metres across and standing about 0.8 metres high, it dips in the centre and sits slightly lower on its western side, the whole thing partially swallowed by vegetation. It is a fulacht fia, a type of site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically interpreted as a Bronze Age cooking place where stones were heated in a fire, dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, and then discarded in a spreading mound once they cracked and became useless. The characteristic kidney or horseshoe shape, and the location beside a reliable water source, are both present here.

What makes the Kilmeedy site quietly interesting is not that it stands alone. Approximately thirty metres to the north lies a second fulacht fia, the two sites occupying the same stretch of streamside ground in what appears to have been a favoured location for this kind of activity. Fulachtaí fia are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, with thousands recorded, yet their precise social function is still debated. Cooking for hunting parties is the traditional explanation, but experimental archaeology and ongoing research have raised other possibilities, including hide-working, textile preparation, or even brewing. The clustering of two examples so close together at Kilmeedy adds a small detail to that larger, unresolved picture, suggesting repeated or sustained use of this particular spot over time.