It is circular, steep-sided, and tapers to a point at the top, measuring roughly 4.2 metres across at its base and standing 1.3 metres high. Those are modest dimensions, closer to a large garden feature than a monument, yet the form is precise enough to suggest that someone, at some point, made it deliberately.

What makes it particularly elusive is that it does not appear on the Ordnance Survey maps of either 1836 or 1876, meaning it was either overlooked by surveyors during both mapping campaigns or was not considered significant enough to record at the time. Its significance, as the archaeological record puts it plainly, remains unknown. It could be a burial mound, a boundary marker, a collapsed or truncated feature of something larger, or something else entirely. Without excavation or documentary evidence, the mound keeps its purpose to itself. Small earthen mounds of this kind are not uncommon across Irish townlands, and they carry a wide range of possible origins, from early medieval funerary use to post-medieval field management, but none of those possibilities can be pinned to this one with any confidence.