It is not especially large, measuring around ten metres in diameter and just over a metre in height, and its flat top gives it a slightly deliberate, engineered quality that sets it apart from a simple rise in the ground. That flatness is the detail worth pausing on. Natural hillocks do not tend to be flat.

Mounds of this kind are scattered across the Irish countryside and present a familiar puzzle to field archaeologists. They may be the remnants of ring barrows, burial cairns, or the earthen cores of early medieval settlements, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say which. What the surveyor Denis Power recorded here, and uploaded to the record in August 2011, is a mound sitting in a natural hollow in a marshy area, with waterlogging running along its base from the north-east to the south-south-west. That pattern of waterlogging may point to the presence of a fosse, which is a surrounding ditch, a feature commonly associated with enclosed or deliberately constructed earthworks rather than accidental accumulations of soil. If a fosse is present beneath the wet ground, it would suggest someone intended this mound to be a defined, bounded thing, separated from the land around it.

The site sits in rough, waterlogged ground, which means the approach on foot will be wet underfoot in most seasons, and considerably more so after rain. The mound itself is heavily overgrown, and the vegetation, combined with the cattle erosion at the edges, makes it difficult to read the shape clearly from close up. A slow circuit of the outside, where the ground permits, gives the best sense of the profile. There are no facilities, no signage, and no formal access; this is working farmland and waste ground rather than a managed heritage site, so any visit should be made with the usual consideration for the land and those who work it.