That local knowledge, passed down through generations, held that the raised ground was a burial place connected to 1798, the year of the United Irishmen's rebellion, which left its dead scattered across the Meath countryside in ways that official cartography rarely captured.

When the site was formally recorded in 1969, investigators found a subcircular platform set just below the hillock's summit, measuring roughly twenty metres along its north-west to south-east axis and eleven metres across. It was defined by a scarp, a low step or edge in the ground surface, running along the south-west side, about one and a half metres wide and just over half a metre high. These are modest dimensions, enough to suggest deliberate shaping of the ground rather than natural variation, but not so dramatic as to draw the eye from a distance. That subtlety may partly explain why it never made it onto the Ordnance Survey sheets. By 1995, however, even that quiet profile appears to have been levelled, the visible form of the mound removed, leaving a place that now survives primarily in the memory of what was recorded and what was believed.