It surfaced, briefly, only because a gas pipeline happened to cut through the area. The site is a fulacht fia, a type of monument found in great numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal surrounding a trough. The usual interpretation is that water in the trough was heated by dropping in stones made red-hot in a fire, then used for cooking, or possibly for other purposes such as bathing or textile processing. Most date to the Bronze Age, roughly 1500 to 500 BC, though examples span a wide period.

This particular site came to light during the construction of the Cork to Dublin gas pipeline in 1981 and 1982, and was noted by Sleeman and Verling in 1987. By the time it was recorded, it had already been levelled, meaning whatever mound or surface expression it once had was gone. It has not been excavated, so the full extent of what lies beneath, and what it might reveal about the people who used it, remains unknown. The pipeline corridor, threading across the Irish landscape, proved unexpectedly useful as a transect for locating sites that had no above-ground presence and might never otherwise have been identified.