It is made of burnt stone and charcoal-blackened soil, and it represents one of the most common yet least understood monument types in the Irish landscape. This is a fulacht fia, a term used to describe the crescent-shaped mounds left behind by prehistoric cooking sites, where stones were heated in fire and dropped into water-filled troughs to bring them to the boil. Ireland has thousands of them, mostly Bronze Age in date, and yet each one represents a moment of organised communal activity, a fire lit, a trough dug, a meal or a process completed.

This particular example sits immediately south of a drain and roughly 150 metres west of the Owenanare River, a location entirely typical of the type. Fulachtaí fia are almost always found near water, which was essential to the whole operation. The mound here measures fourteen metres on its longer north-west to south-east axis and stands about 0.9 metres high, though it has been partially levelled over time, most likely through agricultural activity. The site was noted as early as 1934 by a researcher named Bowman, who recorded it in what was then W. Noonan's land, placing it within a tradition of local observation that predates systematic archaeological survey by decades. That early record helps confirm the site's identity even in its diminished state.