That act of practical interference is now the most visible thing about this fulacht fia near Cashleen on the Renvyle Peninsula in Connemara. A fulacht fia is a type of ancient cooking or heating site, typically Bronze Age in origin, formed by repeatedly heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough; the cracked and shattered stones accumulate over time into a characteristic horseshoe-shaped mound. Here, what remains is a low, grassy rise, roughly thirteen metres long, three metres wide, and about half a metre high, modest even by the standards of a monument class not known for drama.

The small watercourse running beside the site is named Sruffaunbrandraghmore on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, and it once curved naturally around the western, northern, and eastern sides of the mound, a loop that would have made the spot well suited to whatever purpose the site originally served. At some later point the mound was deliberately cut through to alter that course, straightening or shortening the stream's route at the cost of slicing across the archaeology. The damage, though unfortunate, at least produced a readable section face: on the northern bank of the stream, burnt stone and flecks of charcoal are visible in the exposed earth, the compacted residue of repeated prehistoric fireside activity. The valley here is broad and shallow, opening out towards Renvyle Point to the north-west, and the overall setting is quietly agricultural rather than dramatic, which perhaps explains why the mound was treated as an obstacle rather than a relic.