Roughly circular in shape, measuring around eight metres across and rising to about two metres, it would be easy to mistake for a natural rise in the pasture. What makes it quietly anomalous is its summit: flat, and enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone, somewhere between thirty centimetres and a metre wide. That deliberate shaping suggests the mound is not simply a trick of the terrain.

Mounds of this general type appear throughout Ireland and can serve very different purposes across time, from prehistoric burial monuments to later medieval assembly sites or boundary markers. The slight enclosing bank around the summit here adds an element of ambiguity; it hints at use or meaning without pointing clearly to any single period or function. The land climbs to the north-east behind the mound, and the position it occupies commands open views across the bay to the Mullet peninsula, that long finger of land reaching down the western Mayo coastline. Whether that placement was deliberate or incidental is unknown, but a site so close to the shoreline, with such a clear prospect across the water, was unlikely to have been chosen without some awareness of its setting.