No mound rises from the ground, no stones break the surface, and nothing visible marks the spot where human remains were once placed with care. The site is, in the language of archaeology, a cairn with no visible surface trace, which means that what was once a deliberate pile of stones heaped over a burial has either been removed, scattered, or simply swallowed back into the hillside over the centuries.

What we know of the burial comes from a record made by O'Mahony in 1961, which documented a cairn covering an urn burial. An urn burial is a practice associated broadly with the Bronze Age, in which cremated remains were placed inside a ceramic vessel and interred, often beneath a cairn or barrow. The fact that an urn was involved points to a community that had specific rituals around death and commemoration, choosing an elevated, visible location on a hilltop that would have carried significance in the landscape. Whether the cairn was already largely gone by the time O'Mahony recorded it, or has deteriorated further in the decades since, is not clear. Either way, the hill holds something invisible.