At roughly 54 metres in diameter and still standing 1.8 metres high, it is a substantial presence, and yet the most telling detail about it emerged not from the earth's surface but from a small stone box dug from its interior.

When the mound was excavated in 1872, investigators uncovered a rectangular cist, the term for a small burial chamber formed from flat slabs of stone, measuring just over a metre in length and about 60 centimetres wide. Inside were the cremated remains of a person and a small bronze razor. The razor is the more intriguing find. Bronze Age razors of this type are relatively rare in Irish burial contexts and tend to appear in graves of some social distinction, suggesting that whoever was interred here occupied a position of significance in their community. The association of a grooming implement with burial rites across Bronze Age Europe is well documented, touching on ideas of personal identity and preparation for an afterlife that are difficult to interpret precisely but hard to dismiss. The find was recorded by MacEniry in the late 1880s and has appeared in subsequent surveys of Irish prehistory by Price and Waddell.