The mound is gone, levelled at some point, but burnt material remains visible in the field fence immediately to the south, a faint but legible trace of activity that took place here thousands of years ago.

A fulacht fia is a type of ancient outdoor cooking place found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and fire-cracked stone beside a trough, often timber-lined, into which water was heated by dropping in stones from a fire. The mounds, built up over repeated use, are usually the most visible part of the site, so when one has been levelled, whether by ploughing, land improvement, or the slow pressure of agricultural work over generations, what remains tends to be fragmentary. At Loughlea, that fragment is now embedded in a field boundary. Unusually, this site is not alone in the immediate area. A second fulacht fia lies approximately fifty metres to the northwest, suggesting that this particular stretch of ground was returned to more than once, or used by more than one group, over whatever span of time both sites were active.