That uncertainty is the whole point. The site exists in the archaeological record not because anyone walked up to it and measured it, but because a shadow appeared on an aerial photograph, and the feature beneath that shadow has never been confirmed on the ground.

The mound was identified from aerial photographs, references GSI N 747 and 746, and at no point appeared on any edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, which were surveyed across Ireland from the 1830s onwards and remain a primary reference for earthworks and field monuments. Its absence from those maps does not necessarily mean it was never there; some features were simply missed, and others only become legible from the air, when low sun or crop variation reveals buried or overgrown forms. What complicates matters further is that the area is now under dense coniferous forestry. Commercial afforestation, particularly the large-scale planting programmes that transformed much of the Irish midlands from the mid-twentieth century onwards, has damaged or obliterated a considerable number of earthworks and subsurface sites. The planting operations at Magherabane may have done the same here. The site is formally classified as unlocated, which in archaeological terms means it cannot be confirmed, revisited, or properly assessed.

There is nothing to visit and no route to recommend. The mound, if it ever existed in a form that could be seen and touched, is most likely buried under conifer roots or gone entirely. What remains is the aerial photograph, the catalogue entry, and the quietly uncomfortable fact that the record of a place can outlast the place itself.