The mound is built from sand and gravel rather than stone, spans roughly 27 metres at its base, and has the kind of commanding position that ancient communities typically chose with purpose, placing their dead where the land itself draws the eye upward.

The digging that left that hollow at the summit appears to have taken place in the early nineteenth century, a period when antiquarian curiosity frequently outpaced any formal notion of preservation. Whoever opened the tumulus, a type of burial mound used across prehistoric Ireland to inter the dead beneath carefully constructed earthen or stony heaps, found a coarse pottery urn containing bones and ashes. That combination of cremated remains and a ceramic vessel is consistent with Bronze Age funerary practice, when the dead were often cremated and their remains placed in hand-built urns before being interred. The southeastern side of the mound still shows damage from digging, a visible scar that has persisted into the present. The find is recorded by John Waddell in his 1990 survey of Irish Bronze Age burials, though beyond that single reference the individuals responsible for opening the mound, and the subsequent fate of the urn and its contents, remain unrecorded.