The cairn, roughly three metres across and less than a metre high, incorporates a handful of upright slabs that may be the last in-place remnants of the structure. Around the slopes of the mound, larger slabs lie scattered, most likely displaced over centuries by erosion from the summit, carrying with them the physical memory of whatever buildings once occupied the high ground.

The French art historian and archaeologist Françoise Henry recorded what she found here in 1945, identifying erect slabs on the eastern side of the mound as the probable remains of a house, which she compared to similar structures on the nearby Bailey Mór mound. Henry also noted that the contents of a hearth had slid partway down the slope, and that two pig-fibula pins, small pointed tools made from the leg bones of pigs, had been found among them. Such pins were commonly used in early medieval Ireland for fastening cloth or leather. The association with a hearth and personal objects gives even this fragmentary site a quiet domestic quality, a suggestion of ordinary life carried out at an exposed and elevated spot on a small Atlantic island.