A horseshoe-shaped mound, less than a metre high but measuring over thirteen metres across, wraps around a central hollow where people once boiled water, possibly for cooking, bathing, or other communal purposes. This is a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking or heating site found widely across Ireland, typically dating from the Bronze Age. The signature shape comes from the gradual accumulation of fire-cracked stone thrown aside from a water-filled trough after each use, which is why the deposits tend to be dark with ash and charred material.

When the site was first recorded in April 1992, the mound was well preserved, and the trough area, measuring roughly 7.4 metres east to west and 4 metres north to south, was clearly legible in the landscape. The northern edge of the hollow had already been disturbed by livestock, with burnt stone, ash, and blackened earth visible at the surface. By the time of a follow-up inspection in April 2008, the condition had worsened considerably. The mound had been badly poached and eroded, particularly along the western side where a round livestock feeder had at some point been placed. The animals drawn to that feeder had, over time, done considerable damage to what had survived for perhaps three thousand years or more. The site does not stand alone; three other fulachta fia have been recorded in the same general area, suggesting that this stretch of pasture and bog edge was once a place of repeated, purposeful activity.