It measures roughly eight metres by six, and rises no more than about ninety centimetres at its highest point. To a passing eye it might read as nothing more than a damp hump in rough pasture, but it is the remnant of a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland. The standard interpretation holds that fulachta fiadh were used for boiling water, most likely by heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a trough; the blackening and the fractured, friable condition of the stones is a direct consequence of that repeated thermal shock.

The ground here was once considerably wetter. The first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, produced in the nineteenth century, marked this area as liable to flood, which is consistent with what archaeologists have long observed about fulachta fiadh as a class: they cluster near water, since a reliable supply was essential to however the sites were being used. The surrounding land has since been improved and drained, leaving this small mound stranded at the margin between managed pasture and the rushy, overgrown rough ground that preserves some memory of the older, wetter landscape. The site was reported by Tom Coffey and recorded in the Sites and Monuments Record file.

The southern end of the mound is currently inaccessible, blocked by a dense growth of briar and blackthorn that has established itself over the monument. What remains visible is a subcircular form, the characteristic shape that results from spoil being thrown outward from a central working pit over many seasons of use. The vegetation makes any close inspection partial at best, though the blackened earth is reportedly visible where the mound does break the surface.