When archaeologists visited the site in 2002, the field was so overgrown that the monument's presence could not actually be confirmed. Its existence rests, for now, on local knowledge alone.

A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stones left behind after repeated use. The method involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, a process efficient enough to have been repeated across thousands of sites throughout Ireland and Britain. They are usually found close to water, and this one, wherever precisely it lies, sits roughly twenty-five metres north of a stream, which fits the pattern exactly. What the vegetation would not give up, the landscape at least corroborates.