It sits beside a well that has since been closed in, and at some point an ESB electricity pole was driven into the site. That an electricity pole now stands on what may be a Bronze Age cooking place is the kind of quiet indignity that befalls a great many such monuments across Ireland, largely because they can be so easy to miss.

The mound is a fulacht fia, a type of monument found in enormous numbers across the Irish landscape, particularly in low-lying or waterside locations. The basic form is a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone, the debris left behind after repeated cycles of heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring the water to a boil. They are most commonly dated to the Bronze Age, though their exact purpose has been debated, with cooking, brewing, bathing, and hide-working all proposed at various times. The Skarragh example was recorded by Bowman in 1934, at that point on land belonging to a J. Bolster, and described as already levelled by then. Local knowledge suggests the mound was once considerably higher, which would fit a pattern seen elsewhere: gradual reduction through agricultural disturbance over generations. A second fulacht fia lies roughly 110 metres to the west, which is not unusual; these sites often cluster near reliable water sources, and the now-closed well beside this one may well explain why both were established in this particular corner of the field.