It contains a notable proportion of quartz, which catches the light in a way that plain field clearance rarely does, and it sits west of an oratory within an early Christian settlement known as Calluragh burial ground, or An Raingiléis. The mound is thought to mark the location of two leachts, a form of commemorative cairn associated with early Christian practice in Ireland, typically built to honour a saint or mark a place of prayer and penance. They are not graves in the conventional sense, though they carry something of the same solemnity.

The northern leacht, the better-understood of the two, measures roughly 3.6 metres north to south and 3.1 metres east to west. Two upright stones define its western edge, drystone facing survives along its southern and eastern sides, and possible traces of facing remain along the north. This kind of careful, if modest, construction points to deliberate ritual use rather than casual stone disposal. The wider settlement, now designated a National Monument, was documented in detail by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, a foundational reference for the archaeology of Corca Dhuibhne. The site commands an open view across the surrounding landscape, which on a slope this steep and this exposed would have given any early monastic community both isolation and orientation, qualities that seem to have mattered greatly to those who chose such places.