Roughly eleven metres across in either direction, the spread of burnt and fire-cracked stone sits in contrast to the waterlogged terrain around it, a grass-covered mound that only makes sense once you know what it once was. This is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of shattered stone accumulated beside a water source. The standard interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, used for cooking meat or, as some researchers have argued, a range of other purposes. The sheer quantity of heat-fractured stone left behind is what the mound represents, centuries of discarded material that no longer had any use once it had crumbled from repeated thermal shock.

The site sits approximately four metres from a stream to its east, the kind of reliable water source these features almost invariably require. It did not, however, survive entirely intact into the modern era. According to research published by Walsh in 1985, it was levelled during a drainage operation around 1975, meaning the visible spread is what remained after that intervention rather than an undisturbed monument. What is striking about this particular location is that it does not stand alone. A second fulacht fia lies roughly a hundred metres to the west-northwest, suggesting that this stretch of marshy ground was returned to repeatedly, or used concurrently, by prehistoric communities who recognised its combination of water access and workable terrain. The clustering of these sites is a pattern seen elsewhere in Ireland, and it raises questions that archaeology has not yet definitively answered about whether such proximity reflects seasonal use, community size, or something else entirely.