Roughly eight metres across and rising to just over a metre at its highest point, it is composed of earth and reinforced along its eastern side by a scatter of boulders. Whether that revetment, the deliberate placement of stones to hold a bank or edge in place, was put there by human hands as a structural choice, or simply reflects the way the ground has shifted and settled over time, remains uncertain. The site record is candid on the point: it may be a partly natural feature.

What gives the mound its quiet interest is its location. It sits directly opposite a fulacht fiadh, one of the burnt mound sites found throughout Ireland, typically Bronze Age in origin, where fire-heated stones were used to boil water in a trough, leaving behind the characteristic horseshoe-shaped spread of cracked and blackened stone. The proximity of the mound to such a site raises questions that the available evidence does not fully answer. J. Cuppage documented both features as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published in 1986, but the mound's relationship to the fulacht fiadh, whether contemporary, incidental, or something else entirely, was not resolved. Sometimes the most honest thing archaeology can offer is a precise description of something it cannot yet explain.