It measures roughly fourteen metres by twelve, and rises less than a metre above the surrounding ground. What it actually represents is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically Bronze Age in origin. The usual interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire, then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to a boil, the shattered and heat-reddened fragments accumulating over repeated use into exactly the kind of low, horseshoe-shaped mound visible here.

The site was recorded by Bowman in 1934, at which point it lay on land belonging to E. O'Donovan. By then the mound had presumably survived more or less intact through centuries of low-intensity pasture farming, the kind of land use that tends to leave earthworks alone. That changed in the 1940s, when local accounts indicate the mound was ploughed over, an event that will have disturbed the upper layers and spread some of the burnt material across a wider area, though evidently enough of the original form survived to remain recognisable. The Meens example is not isolated; it belongs to a cluster of three fulachta fiadh in the immediate area, suggesting this stretch of stream bank was used repeatedly, perhaps across generations, for whatever activities these sites supported.