A cairn, in the Irish prehistoric context, is a mound of heaped stones, typically raised over a burial or used to mark a significant point in the landscape. This one is tucked into working woodland, its outline detectable on Ordnance Survey maps and visible in aerial imagery captured between 2003 and 2011, yet easy to pass without registering.

Beyond its position on the hillside and its circular form, the record here is spare. The site was documented with information supplied by J. Brindley and included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow, published in 1997. That inventory represents a county-wide effort to catalogue prehistoric and historic monuments, and Wicklow, with its granite uplands and long history of human activity, yielded no shortage of material. The north-west orientation of the slope is worth noting; many prehistoric cairns and burial monuments across Ireland were positioned with deliberate attention to the movement of light and the shape of the surrounding terrain, though whether that applies here remains a matter for further investigation rather than assumption.