Just over eleven metres across and less than a metre high, it is composed almost entirely of burnt material, the accumulated residue of a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in the thousands across Ireland. The name, loosely translated, refers to a cooking place associated with roaming hunters or warriors, and the typical arrangement involved heating stones in a fire, dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil, and using the resulting heat to cook meat. The spent, fire-cracked stones were then discarded to the side, building up over repeated use into exactly the kind of low, horseshoe-shaped mound visible here.

The mound sits roughly sixty metres to the north-west of a well, a proximity that is unlikely to be coincidental, since a reliable water source was essential to the whole operation. In 1934, a researcher named Bowman recorded what appear to be two fulachta fiadh in this area on land then belonging to a man named Daniel Scully, and it is possible that this mound is one of that pair. The 1934 reference places the site within a broader tradition of local antiquarian observation in North Cork, where such features were gradually being catalogued long before systematic national surveys were undertaken.