The mound measures roughly seven metres by twelve, and rises only about half a metre from the surrounding ground, which is typical of the type. A fulacht fia, to use the Irish term, is essentially the accumulated debris of repeated outdoor cooking sessions: a trough, usually timber-lined, would have been filled with water, and stones heated in a nearby fire would have been dropped in to bring the water to a boil. The cracked and shattered stones discarded after each use built up over time into exactly the kind of scorched, horseshoe-shaped mound visible here.

This particular site lies about twenty metres east of a stream, which is almost exactly where you would expect to find one. Proximity to a reliable water source was a practical necessity, and the clustering of fulachta fiadh along streams and boggy ground is one of the most consistent patterns in Irish Bronze Age archaeology. The site was recorded in 1934 by Bowman, who noted it alongside a second fulacht fia on the same landholding, then in the ownership of a T. Sheehan. The two sites are catalogued together in the archaeological record for the area. By the time Bowman visited, the mound was presumably already well settled into the landscape, unremarkable to anyone who did not know what they were looking at.