The mound itself measures just sixteen metres along its northeast-to-southwest axis, six metres across, and rises barely a metre from the surrounding ground. That is not much to look at by any measure, yet the field boundary running along its western side does something quietly telling: it curves outward to avoid the mound entirely. Field boundaries do not bend around things by accident. Whatever this feature represented to the people who worked this land, it was apparently worth steering around.

The mound was already being recorded in the nineteenth century, appearing on the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a circular mound, as noted by Healy in 1975. The more revealing work came later, when geophysical survey was carried out as part of the Lusk Strategic Environmental Assessment for Fingal County Council. That survey, reported by Harrison in 2007, detected a curving ditch roughly forty metres in diameter encircling the mound, along with what appears to be a kink in an adjacent field boundary at the mound's base. Geophysical survey works by measuring subtle variations in the ground's magnetic or electrical properties, picking up buried features without breaking the soil. The increased responses recorded within the interior of the ditch suggest the presence of occupational activity, meaning people may well have lived, worked, or gathered here at some point, though the precise period and nature of that activity remains unconfirmed.

The site sits on a low summit with extensive views across the surrounding countryside, which in itself is a detail worth pausing on. Elevated positions with wide sightlines were frequently chosen for enclosures and settlement sites throughout prehistoric and early historic Ireland, and the scale of the enclosing ditch places this in the range of a ringfort or similar enclosed settlement, a class of monument found in great numbers across the Irish midlands and north Leinster. The mound is not signposted or formally managed as a visitor site, and access would depend on the usual courtesies extended to monuments on private farmland. The most visible indicator of the site's significance, for anyone approaching across the fields, remains that quiet curve in the old field wall.