It is easy to overlook, barely half a metre high and nine metres across, the kind of feature that could be mistaken for a natural rise in the ground. But the local name attached to it, Buaile na Naomh, meaning something close to "the milking place of the saints", suggests it carried a different kind of weight in local memory.

The mound is composed of earth and stone, its original form and purpose now uncertain. When a scholar named Mac Domhnaill recorded it in 1933 in the Topographical Files of the National Museum of Ireland, he described it simply as a grave. Whether that reflects a genuine tradition of burial on the site, a folk memory of something older, or an inference from the visible upright stones, is not clear from what survives. The four stones on the summit are the most conspicuous feature today, and their arrangement hints at a monument that once had more visible structure. Burial mounds of this general type appear across Ireland in various forms, from prehistoric cairns to early medieval grave enclosures, though without excavation it is difficult to place this one within any particular tradition.