It has been recorded, catalogued, and given a reference number, and yet almost nothing about it has been made publicly accessible. The mound endures in a kind of official silence.

Mounds of this kind in the west of Ireland can belong to any number of traditions. Some are natural glacial features that were later adapted or venerated. Others are burial mounds, dating from the Neolithic or Bronze Age, raised over the remains of the dead and sometimes containing chambers of stacked stone. Still others are the eroded remnants of ringfort banks or earlier earthworks, their original shape worn down over centuries of grazing and weather. Without specific information tied to Doonamona, which category this particular mound falls into remains genuinely open. The townland name itself is derived from the Irish, likely referring to a fort or a fortified place, which at least hints at a landscape that carried some significance to earlier inhabitants.