Recorded as roughly twelve metres in diameter and less than half a metre high, it sits on level ground and has sunk so far into the surrounding terrain that it is, by the official description, not visible at ground level. It is, in other words, an archaeological feature that has effectively disappeared into the landscape it once occupied.

Earthen mounds of this kind are a recurring presence in the Irish countryside, and their origins vary considerably. Some are the eroded remains of burial mounds raised in the Bronze Age or earlier; others began as medieval ringfort platforms or the bases of Norman earthwork fortifications. Without excavation it is rarely possible to say which a given example represents. What can be said of this one is that it lies close to a named house and its entrance approach, suggesting the land around it has been managed and altered over centuries in ways that have gradually reduced a once-visible feature to something measurable only on paper.