The cluster is easy to overlook, and for a long time the cartographic record seemed to agree: the mound does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840 at all. It only surfaces on the twenty-five-inch edition of 1897, where it is rendered as a small oval platform, roughly four and a half metres north to south and seven metres east to west, defined by a scarp, a slight but deliberate step in the ground that marks its edge.

The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp visited and recorded both mounds in 1919, describing them as the northern and southern of a pair, ranging from around three to just under four metres high on their eastern sides and somewhat lower to the west, between one and a half and just under two metres. By Westropp's time, a fence had already been driven between the two, and the northern mound, the one recorded here, had been incorporated into what he called a long screen, a narrow plantation of trees running along the Mitchelstowndown North boundary. That planting, intended perhaps as a windbreak or a property marker, effectively absorbed the monument into the landscape without anyone formally acknowledging it was there. Aerial photographs taken in October 2002 and January 2003 by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, along with satellite imagery from 2011 to 2013, show the area still heavily overgrown, the vegetation doing what the fence and the plantation started.

Access is across working farmland, so permission from the landowner is the sensible first step. The site sits at a townland boundary, which can make orientation slightly confusing on the ground; the 1897 twenty-five-inch Ordnance Survey map, now available through the OSi historical map viewer, is a useful reference for locating the scarp that defines the mound's perimeter. Visitors should expect dense overgrowth rather than a clear earthwork profile, and the southern mound nearby, recorded separately, may actually be the easier of the two to read in the field. The enclosure to the north-east adds further context to what appears to be a small but deliberate prehistoric complex on what would once have been a commanding hilltop position.