The name alone sets it apart. Most earthworks of this kind accumulate folklore about fairy activity in a fairly general way, but this one carries something more specific alongside it: a local tradition that it marks the burial place of a soldier, unnamed and unverified, but persistent enough to have been noted in the early twentieth century.

The enclosure measures just 8.2 metres in diameter, defined by a low bank of earth and stone, with upright boulders framing a southeast-facing entrance gap about 1.2 metres wide. When Lynch Athy recorded its local name and associated legend in 1914, the monument already had a particular identity in the area. By 1952, McCaffrey had classified it as a hut circle, a term used for the remains of simple circular dwellings, though the structure could equally be a barrow, the type of low earthen mound used as a burial monument in prehistoric Ireland, or simply the remnant of an early house site. The interior is now obscured by field-clearance rubble, the kind of accumulated stone that generations of farmers moved off surrounding land, which makes a definitive reading difficult. That ambiguity is part of what keeps the place interesting: it has attracted competing interpretations for over a century without settling into any one of them.