It is nearly twenty metres across and rises two metres from the surrounding ground, the kind of earthwork that is easy to walk past without fully registering what the effort of building it once meant.

In 1978, the landowner discovered a short cist burial within the mound, a short cist being a small stone-lined box grave of the type commonly associated with the Early Bronze Age in Ireland, typically holding a crouched or extended body along with grave goods. This one contained an inhumation and a tripartite bowl, a ceramic vessel divided into three internal sections, a form that appears in Irish Bronze Age burial contexts. Both were donated to the National Museum of Ireland. Analysis of the skeletal material by osteologist Laureen Buckley established that the remains appeared to be those of a young adult, though the sex could not be determined with certainty. The find was recorded and discussed by Cahill and Sikora in their 2011 study of Irish Bronze Age burial practice. Beyond that, the mound gives little away. The slight bank along the eastern edge of its summit is unexplained, and the question of whether the cist represented the primary burial for which the whole structure was raised, or a later insertion into an already ancient monument, remains open.