This is a fulacht fia, a type of monument found in the hundreds across the Irish landscape, typically comprising a burnt-mound of fire-cracked stone built up around a trough where water was heated by dropping in stones from a fire. The horseshoe form is characteristic: it results from waste material being thrown back from the central pit, building up on three sides while the open end, usually facing a water source, is left clear for access. Here, that opening faces south-south-west, and the spring well immediately to the south-east makes the whole arrangement legible at a glance, the water supply and the working area still sitting in exactly the relationship they would have occupied several thousand years ago.

The mound itself is modest but well-defined, measuring roughly eleven metres west-north-west to east-south-east and nine metres north-north-east to south-south-west, with the outer height reaching about one and a half metres. The interior is somewhat lower. It is composed of stone and earth, and rough stonework can still be made out delimiting the northern half of the opening. The site was identified by Tom Coffey in 1994 and formally recorded at that time. What makes it worth pausing over is partly the condition, grass-covered but structurally clear, and partly that persistent spring: many fulacht fia sites were associated with reliable water sources, and here the connection survives intact rather than having been drained or diverted away over the centuries.