The mound that once covered it is gone, the bones it contained have long since been disturbed, and the field gives no outward sign that anything of significance lies below. What remains is a record of an accidental discovery, a demolished monument, and a question about what exactly the mound ever was.

The site sits roughly sixty metres south-west of Kilmacar medieval church, and the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded a roughly circular feature there, about eighteen metres in diameter. By 1839, Ordnance Survey correspondence was describing it as a moat, with a castle nearby, and locals knew the spot as "the Barrack". Writing in 1905, the historian William Carrigan recorded what had happened when the mound was removed around 1880: workmen clearing the cone-shaped tumulus found, at its centre and at ground level, a masonry enclosure roughly 1.2 by 1.5 metres across, with no covering slab, filled with black earth and human bones. That description fits a cist, a type of prehistoric box-like burial chamber typically built from flat stone slabs. The absence of a covering slab may mean it was removed, or was never placed. Carrigan also noted that Kilmacar castle stood midway between the mound and the church, though it remains uncertain whether the castle was actually built on top of the mound, which would suggest a motte, a Norman-period earthwork raised as a fortification platform, rather than a prehistoric burial mound. The presence of the cist points more strongly toward the latter, a barrow, that is, a burial mound of prehistoric or early medieval origin, which may have been reused or reinterpreted in later centuries.

The site now offers nothing to see at ground level. The valley views northward and southward along the Gloshia remain, and the medieval church and graveyard survive close by. The archaeological interest here lies almost entirely in the documentary record of a thing that was quietly, irreversibly taken apart before anyone thought to examine it properly.