What makes this particular mound notable is not its age alone, but what the 1840 Ordnance Survey recorded about it: local tradition held that this was a place where abortive children were buried. That single note, preserved in the Ordnance Survey Name Books for Doon to Kilbreedy, connects a prehistoric earthwork to one of the more sorrowful threads running through Irish rural life, the practice of burying unbaptised infants in liminal, unconsecrated ground.

The monument itself is classified as a possible ringfort, also known as a rath, which in Irish archaeology refers to a circular enclosed settlement typically dating to the early medieval period, defined by an earthen bank and sometimes a surrounding ditch or fosse. The 1840 six-inch Ordnance Survey map depicts it as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp, and by the time of the 1897 twenty-five-inch edition it is shown as a raised sub-circular area measuring roughly 26 metres northwest to southeast and 27 metres northeast to southwest. A fosse, the ditch that typically runs outside the enclosing bank, is visible in the earlier mapping, though it had already been intersected by a field boundary established after 1700. That boundary, along with others running through the northeast, southwest, and northwest of the site, speaks to the way agricultural reorganisation gradually encroached on older features across the landscape. The monument sits approximately 40 metres east of the townland boundary with Curraghroche.

The site lies in reclaimed pasture, and more recent satellite imagery from between 2011 and 2013 confirms it is still visible as a tree-lined circular form, its outline cut across at several points by field boundaries. The trees, which often mark such sites in the Irish countryside, offer the clearest guide to its location when approaching across open ground. Ringforts were frequently avoided during land clearance, partly from practicality and partly from a deep-rooted wariness about disturbing them, a wariness that may itself have reinforced their use as burial places for infants who occupied an ambiguous position in Catholic belief. Anyone visiting should expect a working agricultural setting; access to land in Ireland is subject to the landowner's permission, and the monument is not formally managed as a public site.