That triple meeting alone would make the cairn, a mounded pile of stones typically raised over a prehistoric burial, worth noting. But it is what local tradition says lies beneath the stones that gives the site its stranger quality: a cave or cellar, its entrance now invisible, sealed under the weight of the cairn itself.

The detail comes from the Ordnance Survey Namebooks of 1840, which record that the cave was said to have sheltered a great number of neighbouring people during "the time of the rebellion", a phrase almost certainly referring to the United Irishmen rising of 1798, when rural communities across Ireland faced reprisals and military sweeps. The compilers of the Namebooks noted that nobody then knew when the cave had originally been made, and that the entrance could not be found, already lost beneath the stones above. It is an oddly layered image: a prehistoric or early monument, repurposed or at least remembered as a refuge during a violent modern upheaval, then sealed again by time and the cairn itself. Whether the cave is a natural feature of the mountain, an artificially cut souterrain (an underground passage or chamber associated with early medieval settlement), or something else entirely, the record does not say.

The site sits at altitude with extensive views across the surrounding landscape, which is part of what made it both a visible landmark and, perhaps, a useful lookout point for anyone sheltering nearby. It was recorded as inaccessible at the time of survey, and the mountain terrain should be taken seriously by anyone attempting to reach it.