That single phrase, "not located", which occasionally appears against entries for ancient monuments, carries a particular weight. It does not mean the cairn never existed; it means that, despite efforts, no one has pinned it down with certainty. A cairn, in this context, is a mound of heaped stones, often prehistoric in origin, raised over a burial or as a landscape marker on high ground. They are common enough in the Irish uplands, though many have been disturbed, robbed for field walls, or simply swallowed by later planting.

What makes this one linger in the mind is its name. Reynolds, writing in 1973, recorded the local tradition of calling it "the Old Woman". This kind of folk name, attaching a human or feminine identity to a large stone or a mound, has deep roots in Irish landscape tradition. Such names sometimes echo older mythological associations, the hag or cailleach figure who appears in stories connected with high places and ancient monuments across Ireland and Scotland. A related site at Castletimon, not far away in Wicklow, appears to share some connection in the sources, though the precise relationship between the two is not spelled out. Whether the name "the Old Woman" travelled between sites, or whether each carries its own independent tradition, is not recorded.