Measuring roughly six metres north to south and four metres east to west, and rising to just over a metre at its highest point, it is not a dramatic feature in the landscape. What makes it worth pausing over is precisely what cannot be said about it with certainty.

The cairn sits about ten metres west of a townland boundary, a placement that might carry significance or might simply reflect the practicalities of land clearance. No structural stones are visible beneath the vegetation, which means there is no obvious evidence of a deliberate funerary or ceremonial construction of the kind that dots much of the Irish uplands. The tentative classification is that of a clearance cairn, meaning a pile accumulated over generations as farmers removed loose stones from nearby ground to make cultivation easier. These are common enough features across Ireland, often mistaken for something more ancient, or overlooked entirely. The uncertainty here is honest: without excavation, the distinction between a Bronze Age burial monument and centuries of agricultural tidying can be impossible to draw from the surface alone.