It measures roughly 18 metres along its south-east to north-west axis and 16 metres across, rising to just under a metre in height. What it represents, though, is one of the most common and most curious monument types in the Irish landscape: a fulacht fia, the crescent-shaped or oval mound of burnt and fire-cracked stone left behind by repeated episodes of prehistoric cooking or boiling. The standard interpretation is that water was heated by dropping fire-heated stones into a trough, and the discarded, shattered stones accumulated over time into the mound that remains. They are found in their thousands across Ireland, almost always near water.

The location of this particular example fits that pattern closely. Ground to the south-west-west was boggy before drainage works were carried out, suggesting a reliable source of water nearby in prehistory, precisely the kind of wet, low-lying spot that fulachta fiadh consistently favour. The mound was ploughed around 1969, which will have disturbed the upper layers and potentially spread material across the surrounding field, though enough survived to preserve its recognisable oval form. The site was recorded formally in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 1, covering West Cork, published in 1992, which remains one of the key reference works for prehistoric monuments in the region.