The site goes by a few names, including Lios Roibeáird and Lios an Bhúlaeraigh, and at its centre sits an L-shaped stony mound that may be the collapsed remnant of a clochan, a type of dry-stone corbelled structure once common across the west of Ireland.

The Ordnance Survey Name Books, compiled in the nineteenth century, recorded this mound plainly as a circular heap of small stones, which is either a deflating description or a refreshingly honest one depending on your expectations. It also appeared on what is known as the Fair Plan, an early cartographic record, suggesting the feature was considered notable enough to map. Beneath or within that same heap, the landowner at some point turned up a socketed bronze axehead, now held in the National Museum of Ireland under accession number 1944:275. A socketed bronze axehead is a Later Bronze Age tool type, the socket allowing a wooden handle to be fitted into the metal head rather than the other way around, and such finds are relatively rare in direct association with standing field monuments. What makes this particular discovery a little stranger is that earlier published accounts placed the axehead's find spot at a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber often associated with early medieval ringforts, located nearby. That attribution was wrong. The axehead came from the stony mound, not the souterrain, and the correction matters because it shifts the story of this quiet hillside slope back considerably further in time.