No farmhouse stands near it, no field boundary commemorates it, and it does not appear on any Ordnance Survey historic mapping. What remains is simply a shallow hollow, less than a metre across and barely fourteen centimetres deep, that once held burning material and the people who tended it.

The hearth came to light not through dedicated archaeological survey but through the practical business of infrastructure. In 1999, Limerick County Council undertook a water mains upgrade along the route between Adare and Patrickswell, and the monitoring of topsoil stripping along that corridor, carried out under Licence No. 08E0171 by MacLeod and Coshman, revealed what was recorded as Area B. When excavated, the feature measured 0.8 metres long, 0.7 metres wide, and 0.14 metres deep, and contained a single charcoal-rich fill, the compressed remnant of repeated burning in one spot. Within the north-eastern edge of the hearth, a small posthole was also uncovered, circular in plan, roughly thirty centimetres in diameter and slightly deeper than the hearth itself, filled with silty clay carrying occasional flecks of charcoal. A posthole of that kind might have supported a simple upright, perhaps part of a spit or a frame for suspending a vessel over the fire. About seventy metres to the north-west, a ring ditch, a circular earthwork often associated with prehistoric burial or enclosure, marks the wider landscape in which this small fire was made.

Because the site sits in ordinary farmland with no surface expression, there is nothing to see on a casual visit, and the ground has long since been returned to pasture following excavation. Its interest lies less in what can be observed and more in what the record preserves: the outline of an unremarkable domestic act, the kind that would have been repeated countless times across this part of Limerick, now surviving only because a water pipe happened to pass nearby. The excavation archive and site plan, drawn from the MacLeod and Coshman 2008 report, remain the primary means of understanding what was here.