It did not appear in the Sites and Monuments Record of 1992, nor in the Record of Monuments and Places four years later. It was only when someone went out to look, in 1999, that it was formally noted at all.

What they found is modest but precise: a circular cairn roughly 3.2 metres across and 1.3 metres high, built with larger stones at the base that taper to smaller ones toward the top. That construction pattern, along with its setting on flat agricultural ground, points toward it being a clearance cairn, meaning a pile accumulated over time as farmers dragged fieldstones out of the way to make land workable. These cairns are common across Ireland but frequently overlooked, occupying an awkward position between archaeology and agricultural history. About 50 metres to the north-east sits a cashel, a type of stone-walled enclosure associated with early medieval settlement, which gives the immediate landscape a longer human story, though the relationship between the two features remains unclear.