Locals once called it a moate, the common vernacular for a raised mound of apparent antiquity, but an older Irish name had been attached to it long before: Poll an Choradh, meaning either the hole of the weir or the hole or grave of the champion. Both meanings hover uneasily together, one practical and one heroic, and neither quite settles the question of what the mound actually is.

When Ordnance Survey investigators passed through in 1838 and 1840, they recorded the local accounts in their letters, noting the hillock's considerable size and the competing names the people offered. The first-edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1838 shows an oval enclosed area, roughly 90 metres east to west and 70 metres north to south, tree-covered and bounded by a stream to the east. In its present form the mound itself measures approximately 50 metres north to south by 30 metres east to west, rising to around five metres in height, with possible traces of a fosse, a defensive ditch, along its northern side. A fosse of that kind would suggest something more deliberately constructed than a natural hillock, though the mound has also been known locally as the Rath field and the Fairy fort, terms that in Irish tradition attach themselves to ancient enclosures of all sorts. The N11 road now cuts through the eastern edge of the feature, a mundane modern intrusion into whatever boundaries once defined it. When a footbridge was constructed immediately to the south, no archaeological features came to light, which neither confirms nor resolves the mound's origins.

The site sits in a landscape shaped as much by infrastructure as by history. The N11 has altered its eastern profile, and the streams that once gave the feature its pointed, defended-feeling position within the townland are still present, making the approach from certain directions a matter of navigating wet ground and road margins. The tree cover noted on the 1838 map appears to have persisted, and the oval rise remains visible within what is still sometimes called the Rath field, a name that at least suggests local memory of its significance has outlasted most of the physical evidence.