Locally it is remembered as a burial ground, a name that speaks to a long-standing awareness that this is not simply a natural feature of the land, even if the particulars of who lies beneath, or when, have faded from common knowledge.

The mound is a cairn, the term for a man-made heap of stones typically raised over a prehistoric burial or used to mark a significant location in the landscape. This one is subcircular in shape, running roughly ten metres north to south and slightly less east to west. On the flat summit, traces of a low bank are still visible along the northern to north-eastern arc, suggesting the cairn may once have had a more defined structural edge, possibly the remnant of a kerb or enclosing feature. The ridge it occupies runs north to south, which may have been a deliberate choice; elevated ground was often favoured for burial monuments in prehistoric Ireland, placing the dead in visible relationship to the surrounding landscape. Less helpfully, field-clearance rubble has been deposited on the summit at some point, muddying any reading of the original form.