These are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, believed to date broadly to the Bronze Age, and thought to represent ancient cooking sites where stones were heated in fire and then dropped into water-filled troughs to bring them to the boil. What makes this particular example slightly melancholy is what was lost within living memory: a mound roughly two metres high, levelled around 1979 according to local accounts. That flattening reduced a substantial physical presence to a low, grass-covered smear.

The site is not alone in its field. A second fulacht fia lies approximately fourteen metres to the south-west, which is not unusual. These sites frequently appear in clusters, sometimes suggesting repeated or seasonal use of the same watery ground over generations. The burnt mounds that characterise fulachtaí fia are composed largely of cracked and fire-reddened stone, the discarded residue of repeated heating, and they tend to accumulate into considerable heaps over time. The fact that the mound here reached around two metres before it was levelled hints at prolonged, intensive use, though without excavation it is impossible to say more precisely when or for how long the site was active.