It appears on the 1913 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, sitting along a linear stretch of the townland boundary at altitude, but it is entirely absent from the equivalent map published in 1837. That gap of roughly seventy-six years is, in itself, the most telling thing about it.

The mound is classified as a "possible" mound in both the Sites and Monuments Record of 1989 and the Record of Monuments and Places compiled in 1995, a cautious designation that acknowledges the feature without confirming its nature or age. The working interpretation is straightforward enough: it was most likely built as a physical marker to indicate where one townland ended and another began, a common enough practice in post-medieval Ireland where earthen or stone mounds were raised to make administrative boundaries legible in the landscape. On that basis, it is thought to date to after 1700. The townland, as an administrative unit, has deep roots in Gaelic land organisation, and marking its edges with constructed features was a practical response to terrain that offered few natural landmarks. What makes this example quietly interesting is precisely that it was raised in high, rough mountainous country, the kind of ground where a boundary dispute would be genuinely difficult to resolve without some visible, physical reference point left in the earth.