It is roughly circular, flat-topped, and rises no more than 0.75 metres from the surrounding ground. A low earthen berm, about two metres wide, encircles it, and a lone thorn tree grows beside it. The mound is stony in composition and edged with a loose dry-stone revetment, a retaining wall of unmortared stone, that appears to be of fairly recent construction. On the south-eastern side, the edge of the mound is noticeably flattened. It sits on a low rise, visible enough in its landscape, and yet the landowner, when surveyed, had no knowledge of any tradition attached to it.

When David McGuinness examined and recorded the site in 2013, he concluded that it is of doubtful antiquity. The dimensions and general character make it hard to classify as a prehistoric burial mound, even one that has been substantially altered over time. A comparison was drawn with a similar revetted mound at Laragh, also in County Westmeath, which is more prominently sited still, and which may represent a pilgrimage station of relatively recent origin. Pilgrimage stations in Ireland were often modest constructions, sometimes little more than a marked spot in the landscape where people would gather to pray or process, frequently associated with a holy well, a burial ground, or a local saint's feast day. The Davidstown mound fits uneasily into any of these categories, but the Laragh parallel at least suggests a possible function. An earlier description from 1983 recorded the mound as somewhat taller and narrower, with a bush growing on its top, which either points to significant change over three decades or raises the possibility that the two descriptions refer to slightly different states of the same eroding feature.