Cairns are mounded stone structures, typically prehistoric, raised over burials or as landscape markers, and this one presents as a low, roughly circular rise about ten metres across and less than a metre high, its profile softened almost to invisibility beneath a covering of heather. What makes it quietly interesting is not its own presence so much as its relationship to its surroundings: it sits just four metres south of a larger cairn, the two structures occupying the same hilltop in a pairing that suggests deliberate placement rather than coincidence.

A few metres further south again, a slightly curving line of intermittent stones runs roughly east to west, just breaking through the heather. Whether this represents a boundary feature, the remnant of some associated structure, or something else entirely is not recorded. The site is documented in the Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo, compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman, Sheila Ronan, and Connie Murphy, published in 2005. Beyond those spare measurements and observations, the history of the cairn, including who built it and when, remains unexcavated and open.