No earthwork, no rise in the ground, no shadow in the grass. What draws attention to this particular patch of valley floor is precisely the absence of anything to see, combined with the paperwork insisting that something was once there.

The site sits on the level base of a broad north-south valley, just to the west of a stream running roughly north-northwest to south-southeast. That stream does more than drain the hillside; it marks the townland boundary between Slievemore, also known as Kingsmountain, and Glen Upper. Boundary features in the Irish landscape often carried practical and legal weight, serving as fixed points in a system of land division that predates the Ordnance Survey by centuries. When the OS produced its six-inch map series in 1837, no mound was recorded here. By the time the revised edition appeared in 1913, however, a feature was marked and labelled simply as a "Mound". Whether it was newly noticed, newly raised, or already fading by that point, the map gives no indication. What is certain is that by the time the site was examined in the modern period, the surface offered no trace of any archaeological feature whatsoever.