A fulacht fia is a type of ancient outdoor cooking place, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone built up beside a water source over repeated use; the method involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. At this particular site, nothing of that mound survives above ground level. What remains is a cross-section, exposed in the face of a V-shaped cutting through which the Pollbrandy stream now runs.

The layer of burnt stone visible in that cutting runs roughly ten metres on a north-east to south-west axis and reaches about a metre in thickness. Charcoal appears intermittently throughout it, with a notably dense concentration of burning at the centre point, suggesting that was where the heat was most consistently applied over time. The original stream course that the site's users would have drawn on has since disappeared entirely, leaving no trace on the modern landscape. The fulacht fia sits on gently sloping ground on the north-western bank of the current cutting, slightly downhill from a nearby related site some fifty-three metres to the south-west.

Because the mound has no surface expression whatsoever, there is nothing to observe from ground level in the ordinary sense. The archaeology exists only in the exposed profile of the cutting, readable as a dark, stone-rich band in the section face. It is the kind of site that rewards knowing what to look for rather than simply passing through.