To most passing eyes it would look like little more than a grassy hump in the landscape. What it actually represents is a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking or processing site found in considerable numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone accumulated beside a water source. The usual interpretation is that stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into a trough of water to bring it rapidly to a boil, though theories about their use range from cooking and food preservation to textile processing or communal bathing.

This particular example measures roughly twelve metres across in both directions, with an internal height of between 0.6 and 1.1 metres and an external height reaching up to 1.4 metres in places. The opening on the western side, around 4.4 metres wide and 2.3 metres deep, faces directly towards the spring well, which would have provided the reliable water supply essential to the site's original function. What makes the location more than ordinarily interesting is that it does not stand alone. A second fulacht fia lies approximately twenty metres to the south-southwest, and a possible third has been noted in the vicinity. The clustering of such sites is not unusual across the Irish landscape, but finding two or more in such close proximity near a shared water source raises quiet questions about how intensively this ground was used, and by whom, and across what span of time. The site was recorded on Robinson's map of 1977 and formally listed in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996.