A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking or industrial site, typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal left behind after repeated episodes of heating water by dropping hot stones into a trough. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, yet individually they can be remarkably easy to miss, and this one is no exception.

The site entered the official record in 1996, when it was classified in the Record of Monuments and Places on the basis of an annotated six-inch map produced by Tom Coffey in 1994, which marks the location. The ground here is fairly level and has been partly reclaimed as pasture, a process that can disturb or bury surface evidence considerably. A few hummocks are visible in the field, which might indicate subsurface material, but the exact position of the monument remains uncertain. Burnt mound material, the characteristic dark, crumbly residue left by fulacht fia activity, could lie within the reclaimed land itself or in the scrubland to the south of the pasture area.