What was once a visible mound, recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1937, was levelled around 1971, leaving only dark, peaty soil as any indication that something once lay beneath. That soil discolouration is itself a kind of signature: fulachta fia, the horseshoe-shaped mounds associated with ancient open-air cooking, are typically composed of fire-cracked stones and charcoal-rich earth, the accumulated debris of a process in which stones were heated and dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The mounds they leave behind can persist for millennia, which makes the deliberate removal of one all the more pointed.

Fulachta fia are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, found in their thousands, predominantly dating to the Bronze Age, though some examples extend into the early medieval period. They tend to cluster near water sources and low-lying ground, which may explain the peaty character of the soil here. The 1937 map reference suggests the mound was still intact within living memory of the mid-twentieth century, and the local account of its levelling around 1971 places its loss within a period when agricultural improvement schemes were actively reshaping the Irish countryside, often without full awareness of what was being removed. By the time such losses were widely recognised as irreversible, many sites of this kind had already gone.