That much is certain. It has been recorded, classified, and assigned a monument number. Beyond that, the details are elusive, which is itself a kind of statement about how much of Ireland's archaeological landscape remains incompletely documented, sitting in the ground and in partially processed archives simultaneously.

Mounds of this kind in the Irish countryside can represent many things. Some are burial mounds, raised over the dead during the Bronze Age or earlier, their interiors sometimes holding cist burials, cremated remains, or grave goods long since disturbed. Others are the earthwork remnants of Norman mottes, the raised platforms on which timber towers were built following the Anglo-Norman arrival in the twelfth century. Still others are natural glacial features that were later adapted or simply noticed and named by local communities who understood them as significant. Without more specific information about Richmond's mound, it sits in an open category, waiting for closer attention.