It was reported as an extant cairn, a type of ancient stone burial or memorial mound, yet anyone who visits will find nothing rising from the ground to confirm that description. There is no visible surface trace of a cairn here at all.

What the site does have is a brief, strange history of near-revelation. When the field was reclaimed by track machine in recent years, the work unearthed substantial boulders, which were then reburied rather than examined or removed. Whether those stones were the collapsed remains of a cairn, or simply boulders caught up in boggy ground, was never formally established. The clearest evidence for the site's archaeological significance came not from the ground but from the air: aerial photography taken by Ordnance Survey Ireland in 2005 showed a roughly circular cropmark at this location. Cropmarks appear when buried features affect the growth of vegetation above them, causing differences in colour or height visible only from altitude and usually only in dry conditions. By 2013, when more recent aerial imagery was examined, even that faint outline had ceased to be legible. The site appears to have slipped further from view with each passing year.