Its presence is known only because drainage work turned up a spread of burnt material, and local knowledge kept the memory of that discovery alive long enough for it to be recorded.

The site belongs to a category known as a fulacht fia, one of the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland. The term refers to a cooking place, typically a mound of fire-cracked stones accumulated over repeated use, usually found close to a water source. The method involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring the water to boiling point, a technique used across the Bronze Age and possibly into later periods. The proximity of this example to a stream, roughly thirty metres to the south, fits the pattern precisely. During land drainage work, the spread of burnt and shattered stone characteristic of these sites came to light, but rather than being excavated or left exposed, it was covered over with earth and returned to pasture. The site as it now exists is, in effect, archaeology that has been re-buried by practical agricultural necessity.