First by the people who originally built it, then by a later generation who found a new use for the circular mound it sits within. The result is an archaeological curiosity: an ancient burial monument repurposed as a cillin burial ground, a term used for informal, unconsecrated cemeteries where unbaptised infants were traditionally interred at the margins of sanctioned burial practice. What remains today is a large roofstone resting over a collapsed chamber, aligned east to west, with at least four stones still present. The structure is damaged enough that specialists have been unable to assign it to any recognised category of megalithic tomb.

The cairn itself is roughly ten metres in diameter and is described as eccentric, meaning the tomb does not sit at the centre of the mound but is offset within it. This is an unusual arrangement and adds to the difficulty of interpreting the site. The tomb was noted by Melvin around 1971 and later examined by Ó Nuallain in 1989, both of whom recorded its condition without being able to classify what type of megalithic structure originally stood here. Whether it was a portal tomb, a wedge tomb, or something else entirely remains open. What the site demonstrates is a layered quality of use across time: Neolithic or Bronze Age communities raised the cairn, and then, many centuries later, families in grief returned to the same raised ground for very different reasons, a pattern seen at prehistoric monuments across Ireland.