It does not announce itself. It is roughly oval in plan, measuring about 9.6 metres east to west and 7 metres north to south, and rises only 0.3 metres above the surrounding ground. Easy to miss, easy to dismiss, and yet it belongs to one of the most widespread classes of prehistoric monument in Ireland.

A fulacht fia, sometimes called a burnt mound, is the remains of an ancient cooking or heating site. The typical arrangement involved a trough, usually cut into the ground near a water source, and a fire used to heat stones until they were red-hot. The stones were then dropped into the water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, and repeated use cracked them apart. Over time, the discarded burnt and broken stone accumulated into the low, horseshoe-shaped or oval mound that is the most visible remnant today. Thousands of these sites survive across Ireland, dating mostly to the Bronze Age, though their exact purposes are still debated, with suggestions ranging from cooking and food processing to communal bathing. The Gooseberryhill example fits this familiar profile: a modest heap of burnt material, the residue of repeated use at some point in the distant past. It was possibly the same site documented by Bowman in 1934, recorded then as lying on land belonging to a T. Colin. That earlier observation gives the site a small paper trail, even if the surrounding forest has since made it harder to read the landscape it once occupied.