Nine metres in diameter and rising no more than eighty centimetres at its highest western edge, it slopes gently downward toward the east, flattening as it goes. Constructed of earth and stone, it is the kind of feature that registers first as a trick of the ground, perhaps an old drainage hump or a quirk of the underlying rock, before the regularity of its shape begins to insist on itself.

The mound sits on a gentle east-facing slope of a north-south ridge, about twenty metres to the south-east of a rath, the circular earthwork enclosure that was the standard form of a defended farmstead in early medieval Ireland. That proximity is suggestive. Raths often had associated features in their immediate landscape, including subsidiary mounds whose functions remain debated, ranging from animal pounds to burial markers to platforms with ceremonial or territorial significance. The field boundaries that once lay immediately to the east and south of this mound have since been removed, which means some of the contextual relationship between the platform and its surrounding landscape has already been quietly erased.