The mound at Tobermurry is a fulacht fia, a type of site found in extraordinary numbers across the island, typically interpreted as an outdoor cooking place where stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil. The characteristic byproduct was a great quantity of fire-cracked, heat-shattered stone, discarded in a horseshoe or circular mound around the trough. It is precisely this burnt material that defines the Tobermurry example.

The site sits on an east-northeast-facing slope in pasture, immediately north of a farm passageway, and the details on record are modest but telling. The mound is sub-circular, measuring roughly seven metres north to south and five and a half metres east to west, and rises only about twenty centimetres above the surrounding ground level. What gives it away, according to the landowner, is what appears when the field is ploughed: the burnt material comes clearly to the surface, distinguishing the mound from the ordinary soil around it. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011, suggesting the site was noted as part of a broader county survey effort rather than any targeted excavation.

The mound is on private farmland, so access would depend entirely on the goodwill of the landowner, and there is no formal public access arrangement noted. For anyone with permission to visit, the thing to look for is the slight rise in the pasture and the noticeably lighter colouring of the grass above it, both common surface signatures of these sites. Ploughing seasons would, historically, have been the moment of greatest visibility, when the blackened, fractured stone works its way up through the tilth. Outside of that, it reads as little more than a gentle swelling in a field, the kind of feature that thousands of people have walked past without knowing they were skirting the edge of a Bronze Age kitchen.