A fulacht fia is, in essence, the remains of an ancient cooking place, typically a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone accumulated over repeated use, usually associated with the Bronze Age. This particular example survives only as a low, grassy spread, and even that is diminished: according to local information, the mound was levelled in 1983, reducing a feature that would once have been a recognisable earthwork to little more than a discolouration in the pasture.

What gives the site a quiet interest is its setting and its company. It lies approximately fifty metres east of a well, a proximity that is not accidental. Fulachtaí fia almost invariably appear near a reliable water source, since the cooking method they represent involved heating stones in a fire and then dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The association with a well here fits that pattern precisely. More striking still is that a second fulacht fia sits roughly 130 metres to the north-east, suggesting this corner of north Cork was a place of repeated, deliberate activity rather than a single isolated event. Whether the two monuments were in use at the same time, or represent separate episodes of occupation across centuries, is the kind of question that only excavation could begin to answer.