When the land was recently drained and ploughed, three clusters of burnt material came to light across the slope. This, the westernmost of the three, is the smallest and most precarious of the group: a compact deposit of heat-shattered stones and charcoal, caught on the unploughed headland at the western edge of the field, its western side already clipped away by a modern field drain.

Burnt spreads of this kind are usually understood as the debris of fulachta fiadh, a term for ancient cooking or industrial sites found widely across Ireland, typically comprising a mound of fire-cracked stone accumulated beside a trough in which water was heated by dropping in stones from a fire. The stones fracture with repeated heating and cooling, and the discarded fragments build up over time into the characteristic spread. The two companion sites at Ballyhard lie roughly 98 metres and 142 metres to the south-east along the same gentle slope, suggesting that this quiet, boggy hillside was returned to repeatedly, perhaps across generations. The drainage and ploughing that exposed them also, inevitably, disturbed them, and this particular deposit has already lost part of its extent to the field drain on its western edge. What remains is a small and unassuming patch of scorched and broken stone, easy to overlook, and probably far older than the field that now surrounds it.