A fulacht fia, the term used for these characteristic low mounds, typically marks the site of an ancient outdoor cooking place where water was heated by dropping fire-cracked stones into a trough; the shattered, heat-reddened stones accumulate over time into the horseshoe-shaped mound that survives. Finding six of them in one spot is unusual enough to pause over.

The group at Kilcolman sits in wet, low-lying terrain, which is precisely the kind of ground these features favour, since a reliable water source was essential to how they functioned. Two of the mounds lie particularly close together, with a second example immediately to the north of this one. All six belong to the broader prehistoric record of the area, which also includes a ring-barrow, a type of circular burial monument defined by a low bank and internal ditch, located around 110 metres to the west-northwest. The pairing of cooking activity and funerary monuments in the same general landscape is not uncommon in Irish Bronze Age archaeology, though what the relationship between the two actually meant to the people who used them is harder to recover.

Both of the closely neighbouring mounds are reported as heavily overgrown and effectively inaccessible, sitting as they do in marshy ground that discourages easy approach. The vegetation has largely swallowed the outlines that excavation or clearance might otherwise reveal. What remains is more a presence in the landscape than a legible monument, six quiet accumulations of burnt stone slowly disappearing back into the bog.