The one recorded here measures five metres across and stands just under a metre high, a low but deliberate accumulation of stone that does not announce itself so much as wait to be noticed.

Cairns of this kind are among the oldest human-made structures in the Irish landscape, typically associated with prehistoric burial or ritual use, though their precise function often resists easy categorisation. Built from whatever stone lay to hand, this example uses the coarse granite characteristic of the Wicklow hills. The pairing with a near-identical cairn to the north-west is the detail that quietly complicates any casual explanation. Two cairns placed in close proximity are not unheard of in the Irish uplands, and in some cases such groupings reflect a deliberate monument complex, though without excavation it is impossible to say more about the people who built them or when they did so.