It measures roughly 15.6 metres east to west, 7.2 metres wide, and less than a metre high, an elongated rise of earth and stone that could easily be walked over without a second glance. What gives it a slightly awkward dignity is the fact that a stone wall cuts straight through it, at both its northern and southern edges, as though the mound was simply in the way when someone needed to divide a field.

The mound lies between Baile na mBocht and Teampall an Ceathrar Álainn, the latter being a church site whose name translates roughly as the Church of the Four Beauties, a reference to four early saints associated with the Aran Islands. The positioning of the mound on the hillside, close to an ecclesiastical site of that kind, raises the possibility of some early medieval or prehistoric significance, though nothing in the available record confirms what it was originally built for or when. A scatter of large limestone blocks to the northwest turns out, on closer inspection, to be the remains of an animal shelter rather than anything more ancient. The distinction matters here, because in a landscape where every raised feature invites speculation, it is worth knowing what has already been accounted for.