The name attached itself especially to dolmens, where the large capstone sheltering two uprights looked, to a fanciful eye, like a roof under which the couple might have slept for a night. At Killevny in County Galway, the name has migrated onto something rather different: a circular barrow, a type of prehistoric burial mound, that sits quietly in the landscape with its own peculiar character.

The mound itself is well-preserved and measures some 23 metres in diameter, with a flat-topped central rise of roughly 5.3 metres across and a maximum height of 1.3 metres. Around it runs a fosse, the shallow encircling ditch that is a defining feature of a ring-barrow, here about 3 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep, with a narrow drain extending off to the north-north-east. Cattle have worked away at the sides of the mound over the years, eroding and compressing the earth until a ledge-like step has formed around the middle, giving the whole structure the odd visual effect of a smaller mound sitting on top of a larger one. A second possible barrow lies around 50 metres to the south-west, and a ring-barrow of a different type sits approximately 30 metres to the north-west. The cluster suggests this was once a deliberate, considered landscape of the dead, documented by de Valera and Ó Nualláin in 1972.