The site has been levelled, and no trace of it survives above ground. What was once a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking or heating site typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone, exists here now only as local memory passed down and recorded.

Fulachtaí fia are among the most frequently encountered archaeological features in the Irish countryside, with many thousands recorded across the country. They are generally associated with the Bronze Age, and the working theory favoured by most archaeologists is that they functioned as outdoor cooking sites, where stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil. Their tendency to appear near streams or boggy ground supports this interpretation, and the Garraun example, sited beside a watercourse, fits that pattern precisely. What survives at most such sites is the accumulated mound of shattered, heat-stressed stone left over from repeated use. Here, even that has gone, the ground having been cleared at some point, leaving the location known only through local tradition rather than any physical evidence.