It appears on the Ordnance Survey maps of both 1836 and 1876, marked with enough significance to be recorded but apparently never closely examined by archaeologists in the field.

The site sits precisely on the boundary between the townlands of Doon and Moneensauran, and that borderline position is part of what makes it difficult to interpret. A cairn, in the simplest sense, is a deliberate accumulation of stones, and in Ireland such structures were raised across a very wide span of time, from Neolithic burial monuments through to much later boundary markers. The element "clogh" in the local place name points to a stone structure of some kind, though it tells us little more than that. The central question is whether this particular heap of stones predates the townland system entirely, perhaps as a prehistoric monument that was simply pressed into service as a convenient territorial marker when the country was being parcelled into administrative divisions, or whether it was built as part of that process from the outset. Townland boundaries in Ireland were frequently drawn along natural or man-made features that were already visible in the landscape, which means an ancient cairn could acquire a second life as an administrative landmark without anyone having planned it that way. The two possibilities remain open.