To the untrained eye it would pass for nothing more than a slight irregularity in the field. It is, in fact, the remnant of a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically dated to the Bronze Age. The basic principle involves heating stones in a fire, dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it rapidly to a boil, and repeating the process until whatever was being cooked was done. The shattered, heat-spent stones were then discarded to one side, building up over centuries of repeated use into the characteristic horseshoe-shaped mounds that survive today.

This particular mound was recorded as early as 1934 by Bowman, who noted it on land belonging to a J. Hartnett. By that point it had presumably already weathered considerable time, but local knowledge suggests a more recent and sharper loss: around 1982, the mound was ploughed over, reducing a formerly more substantial feature to its present near-invisible state. That kind of incremental damage is not unusual for sites sitting in actively farmed land, and it accounts for why what Bowman documented and what stands in the field today are quite different things. The thirty centimetres that remain represent less the original monument than its floor-level residue, the scorched and fragmented stone that ploughing could compact and disturb but not entirely remove.