It is, most likely, a fulacht fia, one of the most common yet still somewhat mysterious monument types in the Irish landscape. These are Bronze Age cooking sites, typically consisting of a mound of fire-cracked stone that accumulated over years of use beside a water trough, into which heated stones were dropped to bring water to the boil. Thousands survive across Ireland, and yet each one represents repeated, purposeful activity by people who returned to the same spot, heated the same stones, and cooked in the same way across generations. This particular mound measures 13.6 metres east to west and 9.8 metres north to south, with an opening of 3.3 metres facing south-west, the classic form of a crescent or horseshoe defined by discarded burnt stone building up around a central working area.

The site may well be the same fulacht fiadh noted by Bowman in 1934, recorded as lying on land belonging to a J. Murphy in the area. When a drain was cut through it, a trough was uncovered, roughly four feet by three and about a foot deep, and described as having been made from a single solid piece of oak. That detail is striking. The wooden trough is central to how these sites functioned; it held the water, and the oak, dense and resistant, would have made it watertight and durable. Finding one intact enough to identify as a single carved piece is relatively uncommon, and it connects this otherwise unremarkable-looking mound to the lived experience of Bronze Age use in a direct way. The north side of the mound has since been cut by a drain, disturbing part of the monument, though the greater part of the horseshoe form survives.