A ring-barrow once occupied this elevated position, a circular earthen burial mound typically defined by a central mound, a surrounding ditch, and an outer bank, all of which served as a marker for the dead in the prehistoric landscape. By 1960, when the site was recorded, the barrow had already been completely destroyed during the planting of the coniferous forest that now covers the hill. Nothing visible remains.

The destruction was noted in 1960 by University College Cork, which recorded the barrow's position to the north of a second ring-barrow on the same hill. That neighbouring monument survives, at least in the record. Two cairns, stone-built burial or clearance mounds, lie roughly 70 metres and 100 metres to the south, suggesting that this hilltop was once a place of some significance in the prehistoric funerary landscape of Cork. The clustering of monuments, two barrows and two cairns on or near the same summit, points to a site that accumulated meaning over time, even if the tree planting of the twentieth century has left very little of that story visible at ground level.