It is modest to the point of near-invisibility, yet at some point in the past someone thought it worth recording on a map.

The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1910 marks it with the understated italic label "Pile of Stones", the cartographic convention used for features that resist more precise classification. Boundary cairns of this kind were practical rather than ceremonial: a cairn, meaning simply a heap of stones, placed at a fixed point to mark where one landholding or administrative division ended and another began. The 1910 mapping places it on the unbuilt townland boundary, meaning a boundary defined by no wall, ditch, or other constructed feature beyond the stones themselves. Whether it was already old when the surveyors passed through, or was raised specifically to assist them, is not recorded. What is noted is that the stones here are considered modern, making this less a relic of any ancient territorial system and more a functional local solution to the problem of knowing, on an otherwise featureless rise of ground, exactly where one place stops and another starts.