That uncertainty is itself the most interesting thing about it. The mound measures roughly twenty metres along its straight north-south side and projects about ten metres to the east, giving it that flat-backed, half-rounded profile. Whether it is a burial monument, a remnant of a ringfort, or something else entirely, the vegetation has made the question difficult to answer.

Mounds of this kind in the Irish landscape can represent any number of origins. Some are natural glacial features that accumulated folklore and ritual significance over time. Others are the eroded remains of early medieval earthworks, such as ringforts, whose circular or D-shaped enclosing banks once defined farmsteads. A D-shape in particular sometimes results from a ringfort being built against a pre-existing boundary, or from centuries of agricultural erosion wearing away one side while the other survives against a fence or ditch. In this case, the mound abuts the eastern side of a north-south field fence, which may itself follow a much older boundary line, or may simply have been built against whatever solid ground was already there. The heavy overgrowth that now covers the site has prevented any clear reading of its structure or purpose.