Measuring roughly eight metres north to south and seven metres east to west, and rising only about sixty centimetres from the surrounding ground, it is the kind of feature that could easily be dismissed as a natural rise or a pile of cleared stone. Partly that is because field-clearance rubble and overgrowth have done their work, softening whatever original profile the mound once had.

A barrow is a prehistoric burial mound, typically earthen, and this one sits approximately fifty metres west of the existing Dooros burial ground, a proximity that may not be coincidental. According to the Ordnance Survey Letters compiled by O'Flanagan in 1939, local people in the area recalled that a friary once stood near the graveyard, associated with a mound of earth in an adjacent field. Whether that mound and this barrow are one and the same is uncertain, and no structural remains of any friary have been identified on the ground. What local tradition does preserve is a memory of small headstones marking burials on the site, though none of these survive as visible features today. The likely explanation is that the barrow was repurposed at some point as a cillín, the informal term for a children's burial ground, where unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground were quietly interred. Such places are scattered across Ireland, often occupying prehistoric earthworks, perhaps because their liminal, already-sacred character made them feel appropriate for those who fell outside the formal rites of the Church.

What remains at Dooros is a site that has been many things to many people across a very long span of time, and has left almost no clear physical record of any of them. The mound endures, barely, beneath the rubble and the growth, carrying a weight of association that its appearance alone would never suggest.