What makes this one in Kilkinlea Upper worth pausing over is the hollow at its heart, a shallow depression roughly eight metres across, which tells you that someone, at some point, decided to dig into it. Whatever they were after, or whatever they removed, has left the mound looking slightly cored, an object that was clearly interfered with but whose original purpose remains unspoken.

The mound itself is sub-circular in plan, measuring 8.7 metres north to south and 11 metres east to west, rising to a maximum height of 1.4 metres. It is constructed of earth and stone, and sits on a gentle north-facing slope, currently in pasture. It was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the archaeological inventory in August 2011. Beyond those measurements and observations, the record is quiet. Mounds of this general type can represent a wide range of things in the Irish landscape, from Bronze Age burial monuments to later medieval earthworks, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say which category applies. What the quarrying has done is complicate any future reading of the site; the central depression suggests material was removed, perhaps for building stone, perhaps for something else entirely, and in doing so has altered whatever sequence of layers might once have offered a clearer answer.

The mound sits in working farmland, so access would depend on landowner permission. It lies on a north-facing slope, which in practical terms means the ground can hold moisture and the grass around a low earthwork like this tends to stay long, making the slight rise of the mound easier to spot in certain lights than others. Early morning or low winter sun, when shadows gather in the central depression and along the outer edges, is the kind of condition that makes otherwise subtle earthworks readable. Visitors with an interest in field archaeology will want to walk the perimeter to get a sense of the surviving profile, and to note where the hollow sits in relation to the overall shape, slightly off-centre or central, that detail alone can sometimes suggest what a mound once held.