Measuring roughly six metres east to west and five metres north to south, it is not dramatic to look at, but it belongs to one of the most intriguing and widespread monument types in the Irish landscape.

A fulacht fia, the plural being fulachta fiadh, is essentially a Bronze Age cooking or processing site. The typical arrangement involves a trough dug into the ground, a nearby water source, and a large quantity of stone that was heated in fire and then dropped into the water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The cracked and shattered stones, blackened by repeated heating, were discarded into a horseshoe-shaped mound around the trough, and it is precisely that mound of burnt material that survives at Curraghagalla. The site is not an isolated curiosity; it sits within a cluster of four such monuments in the same area, suggesting that this stretch of streamside ground was returned to repeatedly, perhaps seasonally, over a long period during prehistory.