It is a mound barrow, a prehistoric burial monument of a type found across Ireland and Britain, typically raised over the remains of the dead during the Bronze Age. What makes this one quietly compelling is precisely its ordinariness, an unremarkable lump of earth in unremarkable farmland that has, nonetheless, survived for thousands of years in a landscape that has changed almost entirely around it.

The mound was recorded and compiled by archaeologist Caimin O'Brien, with details uploaded in October 2021. It sits in the townland of Boher, with the townland boundary of Behanagh running just 25 metres to the south, and the northern bank of the Behanagh River a further 65 metres beyond that. The mound itself is nearly circular, measuring 6.15 metres north to south and 6.1 metres east to west, and rising to a height of 1.1 metres. It is defined by a scarp, essentially a sharp edge or drop where the mound meets the surrounding ground level, but there is no evidence of an external fosse, meaning no encircling ditch was cut around it. Many barrows were constructed with such a ditch, the spoil from which was used to build up the mound, so the absence here is a point of interest in itself, suggesting either a different construction method or simply that any fosse has been obscured or levelled over time.

The site sits in working agricultural land, and views from the mound are restricted by the flat, enclosed character of the surrounding pasture. There is no elevated prospect, no obvious landmark quality. A visitor approaching on foot should look for the subtle rise in the field rather than anything architecturally obvious. The proximity to the Behanagh River and the townland boundary suggests the mound may once have served as a marker in the landscape, positioned deliberately at a meeting point of territories and water. Access to sites like this in private farmland generally requires consideration for the landowner, and the mound itself, low and unexcavated, offers no interior to explore, only its shape and its silence.