There are no walls, fences, or hedges here to indicate where one townland ends and another begins, only this modest cairn sitting at the precise point where the invisible line between Cullinboy to the west and Gubinea to the east shifts direction, turning from a southwest-northeast alignment onto a more northerly course.

The cairn appears in the 1910 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, noted in the distinctive italic lettering that cartographers of that era used for antiquities and features of particular interest, described simply as a 'Pile of Stones'. Townland boundaries in Ireland are ancient divisions of the landscape, many of them pre-Norman in origin, and they were mapped with considerable care during the great nineteenth-century OS surveys. Where natural features such as rivers or ditches did not mark the line, a constructed marker sometimes did. What is curious here is that the cairn recorded in 1910 is described as a small modern pile of stones, meaning it was already understood then not to be an ancient monument but a functional, utilitarian object, a point of reference for anyone who needed to know exactly where the boundary turned.