The mound measures roughly twelve metres east to west and seven metres north to south, a modest but legible footprint that rises just enough above the surrounding field to catch the eye once you know what to look for.

Fulachtaí fia, which occur in their thousands across Ireland, are the remains of ancient outdoor cooking sites, typically dating to the Bronze Age. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, allowing meat to be cooked. The crescent or horseshoe shape seen at many sites comes from the gradual build-up of discarded, shattered stone around the trough. Here, the spread of burnt material sits on the southern bank of a stream, which would have provided a reliable water supply, a consistent feature of these sites wherever they appear. The slight rise the mound creates in the otherwise flat field is itself the accumulated debris of repeated use, layers of scorched and fragmented stone compacted over time into the ground.