It is small enough to be unremarkable, roughly six metres at its longest and less than a metre at its highest point, yet its ambiguity is precisely what makes it interesting. Is it a grave, or simply a heap of stones cleared from nearby fields? Nobody has been able to say for certain.

The mound first entered the official record in 1991, when aerial photography appeared to show several small subcircular features in the area. On that basis it was included in heritage surveys as a candidate archaeological site, and the designation persisted through the 1997 revision. When an inspector visited in 1998, however, the picture grew rather murkier. Only a single feature was found on the ground: an irregular stony mound, sod-covered and shapeless, sitting just inside the boundary of the adjacent children's burial ground. A cillín, as such burial grounds are known in Ireland, was traditionally used for the interment of unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground, often located at liminal spots such as field boundaries, ringfort interiors, or old ruins. The mound's proximity to one raises the possibility that it too marks a burial. But its irregular shape and composition, more consistent with the kind of stone heap a farmer might accumulate when clearing a field for cultivation, makes that reading uncertain. No other mounds were found nearby, quietly deflating the plural promise of those early aerial photographs.