That slight, almost imperceptible rise is the kind of thing a farmer notices underfoot before anyone else does, and it is the only outward sign that something older may lie beneath. Local tradition holds that this is a burial ground, and the raised profile lends the claim a certain quiet plausibility.

The Argideen is a modest river running through the Barony of Carbery in south-west Cork, and the land on its northern bank has been in agricultural use for generations. Raised burial grounds of this kind are not unusual in Ireland. Over centuries, successive interments gradually build up the soil level, leaving a gentle mound that persists even after the site is otherwise forgotten. Whether the burials here are early medieval, post-medieval, or of another period entirely is not recorded. What survives is the shape of the ground, and the memory passed down among local people that the dead were once laid here.

At present the site is inaccessible, overgrown to the point where the ground itself cannot easily be examined. The overgrowth is, in its own way, a kind of preservation, keeping the raised area undisturbed while the fields around it are worked.