What the 1933 Ordnance Survey six-inch map captured as a distinct earthwork feature has since been swallowed by the landscape, leaving only the cartographic notation as evidence that anything was ever there.

Earthen mounds of this kind in the Irish countryside can represent many things: burial cairns, the worn-down bases of ring forts, or simply the accumulated debris of centuries of agricultural activity. Without excavation it is rarely possible to say which. What can be said about this particular feature is that by the time anyone thought to record it archaeologically, the physical evidence on the ground had already gone, leaving the 1933 map entry as the sole anchor for its existence. The undulating pastureland of the area, common to much of County Galway's interior, is well suited to obscuring low earthworks over time, as ploughing, grazing, and land improvement gradually level what earlier generations left behind.