What remains today, an elongated pile roughly four metres long and less than half a metre high, is a diminished thing; it may even be no more than old field clearance at this point. But it occupies the place of something older, and the tradition attached to it is quietly striking.

The structure is a leacht, a term used in Irish for a cairn or commemorative stone heap, typically raised over a grave or in memory of someone who died at a particular spot. Writing in 1937, a researcher named Broker recorded it as still recognisable: a worn cone shape, seven or eight feet across at the base and four or five feet high. The story associated with it held that a travelling woman had been murdered at this location, and that the cairn grew stone by stone from the habit of passers-by each adding to it. This was the carn, the Irish word that gives us "cairn", and the practice of adding a stone as you passed was a form of informal, cumulative commemoration, a way of acknowledging the dead without any formal ceremony or institutional memory. By Broker's time, the custom had already died out, and the structure has continued to diminish since. Whether the tradition reflects an actual historical event, or whether the story itself was the point, a folk explanation for a pre-existing mound, is now impossible to say with any certainty.