It is not much to look at: half a metre high, roughly twenty-eight metres across at its widest, and open on its south-south-eastern side. But the material that makes up that mound is what gives it away. This is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site, and it is built almost entirely from burnt and fire-cracked stone.

Fulachta fiadh, the plural form, are among the most numerous archaeological monuments in Ireland, found in their thousands across the country, almost always beside water. The working theory is that stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough, bringing the water to a boil quickly enough to cook meat. The discarded, shattered stones were piled up around the trough over time, producing the distinctive horseshoe shape, with the open end typically facing the water source. At Meens, that opening, nearly nine and a half metres wide, faces south-south-east, roughly towards the nearby stream. The site was recorded by Bowman in 1934, at which point the land was held by an E. O'Donovan. It is one of a cluster of three such monuments in the immediate area, suggesting this particular stretch of ground was used repeatedly, possibly over generations, during the Bronze Age.

The three sites together point to something worth sitting with: not a single opportunistic camp, but a place people returned to, a spot where the ground, the water, and perhaps long habit made cooking on a large scale practical. Whether they were used simultaneously or across a long span of time is the kind of question the mounds themselves cannot answer.