It does not appear on any Ordnance Survey historic mapping. By 2011 it had become invisible in aerial photography altogether, absorbed into the surrounding pasture or perhaps never distinct enough to register from above. The site exists, officially, in a state of qualified uncertainty: possibly prehistoric, possibly a modern spoil heap, and either way easy to miss entirely.

The mound came to attention in 1999, when archaeologist Celie O'Rahilly was walking the proposed route of an ESB power line through this part of Limerick. She identified it as Site 11 on that survey and noted it as a possible fulacht fia, a type of monument found widely across Ireland and generally interpreted as a Bronze Age cooking place. The typical form involves a trough, a hearth, and a mound of burnt and shattered stone left over from repeatedly heating rocks and dropping them into water to bring it to the boil. They tend to cluster in low-lying, damp ground, which fits the setting here well: the mound sits at the eastern end of a drain or pond that has since been enlarged. Whether the original form has been obscured by that drainage work, or whether the mound was always too slight to survive clearly, is not recorded. Two cairns, stone mounds of likely prehistoric origin, lie roughly 104 metres to the east and 125 metres to the east-south-east, logged separately under their own monument numbers, which at least suggests the broader landscape had some significance to earlier inhabitants.

Accessing the site means crossing rough, wet pasture, and the ground conditions alone explain why this kind of monument so often goes unrecorded or undated. There is no formal public access noted, and the mound itself, if it survives at all above ground level, would be subtle to the point of invisibility. The record was compiled by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly and uploaded in July 2020, meaning the site now at least exists in the national monuments database, even if the landscape has largely reclaimed whatever physical trace there was to find.