It measures twenty-two metres in diameter and rises two metres from the surrounding ground, dimensions that place it firmly in the category of a mound barrow, a burial monument type built to mark the interment of the dead, typically during the Bronze Age. The flatness of the top is the detail that catches the eye; unexcavated barrows more often present a rounded profile, and a levelled summit can suggest either deliberate design or centuries of agricultural disturbance working away at the original shape.

Meath is well-stocked with prehistoric earthworks, sitting as it does within a landscape that includes the great passage tombs of the Boyne Valley. Mound barrows like this one are generally later in date than those monuments, belonging to a broader tradition of burial mound construction that spread across Ireland and Britain during the second millennium BC. They vary considerably in scale and form, from modest field monuments to more elaborate raised platforms, and most have never been excavated in any systematic way, leaving the individuals commemorated within them entirely anonymous to us.