What makes this one quietly interesting is not what it looks like now, which is to say very little, but what the cartographic record suggests it once was, and how it slipped in and out of official notice across the span of several decades.

The cairn is one of three boundary cairns in close proximity on this stretch of rough upland pasture, with two companions recorded nearby at 25 metres and 15 metres to the south-west respectively. A cairn in this context is simply a deliberate accumulation of stones used as a marker, a practice with roots stretching back into prehistory but one that continued to serve very practical purposes in defining townland limits well into the modern era. When the Ordnance Survey of Ireland produced its first detailed six-inch mapping in 1840, this particular cairn did not appear at all. By the 1897 edition of the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map, it had been annotated simply as 'Mounds', a label that covers a great deal of ambiguity. The Cassini edition of the six-inch map, a later reprinting of the OSi material, depicted it as a small circular shaped mound, which at least gives some sense of its former profile.

By the time satellite imagery was examined, sometime between 2011 and 2013, no surface remains were visible, and subsequent Google Earth orthoimages confirmed that the feature had effectively disappeared from the landscape. The rough pasture that surrounds the site is typical of upland Limerick terrain, and generations of grazing, peat movement, and general erosion could account for the loss. Anyone visiting the area would be working primarily from map coordinates rather than any visible feature on the ground. The broader group of three cairns is recorded under the reference LI050-028001 and associated numbers in the national monuments record, which gives a starting point for locating the general area. The mountain setting means ground conditions are likely to be wet and uneven, particularly outside the summer months, and the absence of anything visible above ground means the interest here is largely conceptual, a place defined by what the maps once showed rather than by anything a visitor can now put a hand on.