What sets it apart is a feature along its northern side: a short, straight bank of earth and stone, faced on its outer edge with three large slabs, as though someone once felt the need to define a boundary there. A hollow runs around the interior of the cairn from the south around to the northwest, tracing the perimeter like a shallow moat, and locally the site has long been thought to be a burial place.

A cairn, in the most general sense, is simply a deliberate accumulation of stones, but in the Irish archaeological context cairns are frequently associated with prehistoric funerary monuments, sometimes covering megalithic chambers, sometimes marking the remains of the dead in ways that left no visible chamber at all. The dimensions here are modest but not negligible: a subcircular mound just over seven metres north to south and nine metres east to west is a meaningful construction, requiring sustained effort to build and, presumably, a reason to build it. The three large facing slabs on the outer bank hint at an intention beyond a casual field clearance heap. Whether any burial deposit survives beneath the stones is not recorded, but the local memory of the place as a burial site is itself a form of continuity, a sense that something of significance happened here, even if the details have long since blurred.