It has been catalogued, given a record number, and assigned a place in the national inventory of monuments, yet the details that might tell us whether it is a burial mound, a platform, a collapsed souterrain cap, or something else entirely remain, for now, out of public reach.

Mounds of this kind in the west of Ireland can belong to several different traditions and periods. Some are prehistoric burial cairns or earthen barrows, raised over the dead during the Bronze Age or earlier. Others are the remains of raths, the earthen ringforts that once enclosed farmsteads across Ireland during the early medieval period. A few are entirely natural glacial features that attracted later human association or use. Without the specific site data, Streamstown's mound holds all of these possibilities simultaneously, which gives it a particular quality: it is a known unknown, a feature substantial enough to be formally recorded but not yet explained in any public forum.