A barely perceptible mound of burnt material, low and unassuming, is all that remains of what was once a fulacht fia, one of the most common yet still somewhat mysterious prehistoric monument types found across Ireland. Fulachtaí fia are the remnants of ancient cooking or industrial sites, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stones and charcoal built up over repeated use. Water would have been heated by dropping stones from a fire into a trough, allowing meat to be boiled or other tasks, perhaps textile processing or bathing, to be carried out. This one, however, is barely there at all.

According to local information, the mound was levelled around 1977, reducing what may once have been a more legible earthwork to little more than a faint rise in the ground. It is a common enough fate for sites of this kind, particularly those sitting in agricultural land where the pull of practical use outweighs the pull of preservation. The burnt and shattered stone that gives fulachtaí fia their characteristic dark, humped profile tends not to survive well once the ground is disturbed, and what remains at Berrings offers only the faintest suggestion of what once stood here.