It measures roughly six metres in each direction, its curved edge defined by a low scarp no more than sixty centimetres high, while a field fence forms the flat side to the south-west. Locally, the mound goes by the name 'Lisheen', a diminutive of the Irish word 'lios', meaning a ringfort or enclosed settlement. The 'een' suffix is affectionate, suggesting something small or modest, and such local names often outlast any scholarly classification of what a feature actually is.

The form of the mound is ambiguous in the best possible way. A D-shaped earthen platform with a low curving scarp could represent the remains of a ringfort, a class of monument built in early medieval Ireland, typically between the sixth and tenth centuries, as a farmstead enclosure for people and livestock. It could equally be something older, or something more recent, a cattle pound or a garden feature or a boundary marker that accumulated its own mythology over time. The single protruding stone adds to the puzzle without solving it. What the landscape does confirm is that whoever shaped this rise, or chose to build on it, had an eye for position: the views to the north are notably open.