But the field is called Páirc na Fola, the field of blood, and the mound is known as Cnoc na Fola, the hill of blood. Local tradition holds that a battle was fought here in ancient times and that the cairn marks the burial place of those who died. The site measures just 7.4 by 8.2 metres and stands only 0.6 metres high, modest enough to be mistaken for a natural rise, but four standing stones along its perimeter and three further fallen slabs suggest something deliberate and carefully arranged.

What makes the site genuinely unusual is that two of the standing stones carry ogham inscriptions. Ogham is an early medieval script found across Ireland and parts of Britain, in which letters are represented by notches and strokes cut along the edge of a stone. One rounded boulder, 0.8 metres high with a circumference of 1.3 metres, bears the inscription GOSSUCTTIAS; the stone immediately to its south reads GAMICUNAS. These are personal names rendered in a script typically dated to between the fourth and seventh centuries, which raises the possibility that at least some of the stones were memorial markers for named individuals rather than anonymous battlefield dead. A further outlying standing stone sits 38 metres to the east-northeast, separated from the main group. Writing in 1838, the antiquarian Windele recorded being told that a cave containing bones had been found nearby, and that ploughing regularly disturbed graves and skeletal remains. That cave may have been a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage often associated with early medieval settlement, though given the burial context here it was more likely a grave. A century later, the scholar known as An Seabhac noted in 1939 that three of the standing stones were said to mark the heads of large graves, each roughly 4.6 metres long. No surface trace of those graves remains visible today.