What lies beneath the turf is almost certainly a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in considerable numbers across Ireland, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone and charcoal left behind after repeated cycles of fire and water. Their proximity to water sources, as here, is characteristic; the method involved heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil.

The site appears in a 1934 publication by Bowman, who recorded a fulacht fiadh on land belonging to a J. Guiney, and this Meengorman site is the likely candidate. Beyond that reference, the documentary record is thin, which is itself fairly typical. Fulachtaí fia rarely attracted much written attention before the twentieth century, partly because they look like little more than low mounds of dark, crumbly earth, and partly because their prehistoric origins were not widely understood. The burnt stone mounds are now recognised as one of the most common monument types in the Irish landscape, with several thousand recorded across the island, yet individual examples like this one remain obscure, logged in county inventories and little visited.