A gentle swell in the ground, roughly ten metres across, is all that remains of what was once a mound substantial enough to be mapped. It sits at the northern end of a low, elongated ridge running north to south across gently undulating pasture, with Nephin Mountain filling the south-western horizon. The elevation is slight, but deliberate; whoever raised this mound chose the position carefully.

What makes its history quietly puzzling is the cartographic record. The Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1838 and 1922, which between them documented an enormous amount of the Irish landscape in considerable detail, do not show it at all. Yet the larger-scale twenty-five inch plan does, rendering it as a circular hachured feature, the conventional mapping symbol for a rounded earthwork, at roughly ten metres in diameter. Somewhere between the mid-nineteenth century and whatever date the twenty-five inch survey captured it, the mound existed on paper. Then it was levelled, presumably by agricultural activity, and now only the faintest rise in ground level marks the spot.