The feature sits in pasture just to the west of the entrance avenue leading to Mount Coote House, roughly 160 metres from the house itself, and it gave the entire estate its name long before anyone thought to stop mapping it.

The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows it clearly: a circular platform defined by a scarp, positioned to the west of the ornamental garden belonging to Mount Coote House. That same year, the Ordnance Survey Name Books for the parish of Ardpatrick recorded it under the name "Mount Coote Moat" and noted, with appealing directness, that "Mount Coote takes its name from this little mount." A moat in this context almost certainly refers to a motte, the flat-topped earthen mound associated with early Anglo-Norman fortification, rather than a water-filled ditch, though the term was often used loosely in nineteenth-century Ireland to describe any prominent earthwork of uncertain origin. Whatever its original purpose, the feature was considered significant enough to anchor a place name, yet it disappeared from subsequent Ordnance Survey mapping entirely, an omission that leaves its precise character open to question.

On the ground today, the mound is not immediately legible as an ancient monument. Aerial and satellite imagery taken between 2011 and 2013, including Google Earth orthoimages, shows it as a tree-covered area, which means the canopy may actually help a visitor locate it where the contours of the land alone might not. It lies close to the entrance avenue on the western side, so anyone approaching Mount Coote House along that approach should find the treeline a useful marker. The surrounding land is pasture, and access would depend on landowner permission, as is standard for earthworks of this kind on private agricultural ground.