That modest label conceals something considerably older and more specific: a fulacht fia, one of the most widespread and yet still somewhat enigmatic monument types in the Irish landscape. A fulacht fia, in the broadest sense, is a prehistoric cooking site, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and shattered stone accumulated over repeated episodes of heating water, usually by dropping fire-heated stones into a trough. They date mostly to the Bronze Age, though the tradition may extend earlier, and they appear in their thousands across Ireland, often in low-lying or damp ground.

What makes the Meeneeshal site quietly interesting is that it does not stand alone. A second fulacht fia lies roughly 80 metres to the south-east, and both were recorded in 1934 by Bowman, who noted them on land then belonging to a W. McAuliffe. The pairing is not unusual in itself, as fulachta fiadh are frequently found in loose clusters, but it gives the site a small point of documentary history, anchoring it to a specific moment of observation and a named landowner, even if the land and its archaeology have remained largely out of reach since.