It is easy to walk past without a second glance; from a distance it reads simply as a slight swelling in the field. But its proportions tell a more deliberate story. The mound is roughly circular, measuring just over fifteen metres across at its base, and rises to somewhere between one and a half and two and a half metres in height. What makes it genuinely curious is the detail at the top: a slightly raised edge, about six metres in diameter, runs around the flat summit, most pronounced at the north-east and south-west, with two gaps of around one and a half metres at the north and south-south-east. That kind of carefully shaped lip is not the work of erosion.

Earthen mounds of this kind in Ireland are broadly understood as prehistoric or early medieval in origin, sometimes serving as burial monuments, territorial markers, or the bases of timber structures, though without excavation the purpose of any individual example remains open. This one is built largely of clay, with some stone visible in its fabric. It appeared on the 1920 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, already noted with hachuring, the cartographic convention used to indicate a mound or raised feature. At that time a field boundary ran roughly north-east to south-west and clipped the mound at its north-western edge; that same north-western side is the lowest part of the mound today, standing only around 0.8 metres, which suggests the earthen bank may have caused some damage or disturbance over time. The mound was surveyed by Robinson in 1977, at which point its general condition and dimensions were recorded in the form they take today.