What makes it stranger still are the stones arranged around it: at its eastern edge, two parallel upright slabs stand less than two-thirds of a metre apart, set at right angles to the cairn's edge, while a further pair of taller slabs sits about 2.4 metres to the south-east, spaced nearly two metres apart. This second pair has no agreed function. They simply stand there.

The cairn was recorded as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, the Irish-speaking heartland of the Dingle Peninsula, which brought together a dense concentration of prehistoric and early medieval monuments along one of the most archaeologically layered stretches of coastline in the country. The cairn itself is partly revetted, meaning its edges are reinforced with a low facing of drystone walling, a technique that suggests it was deliberately shaped and maintained rather than simply piled up. Most intriguingly, two pre-bog field walls radiate outward from the southern and eastern apexes of the triangular mound. Pre-bog walls are ancient field boundaries that became buried under blanket bog as the landscape changed over millennia, and their presence here suggests the cairn was once a focal point within a working, managed landscape long before the bog crept in to preserve and obscure everything around it. Whether the cairn marked a boundary, a burial, or something else entirely, the record does not say.