It is easy to overlook, rising less than a metre from the surrounding ground, but its dimensions tell a more deliberate story: roughly 11.4 metres along its north-northwest to south-southeast axis and 6.8 metres across, the mound tapers into a distinct tail at its southern end. That tapering is characteristic of a particular class of prehistoric funerary monument, sometimes called a wedge or tailed barrow, shaped not by accident but by careful accumulation of earth and stone over what was almost certainly a burial.

What makes the site more interesting still is its company. This mound is one of a cluster of four tumuli grouped together in the same field, a configuration that suggests the area served as a significant place of the dead across some span of prehistoric time. A tumulus, in the broadest sense, is simply a burial mound, a raised earthwork constructed to mark and contain human remains. The grouping here sits to the south of a burial ground and in the vicinity of a cist, which is a small stone-lined grave box, typically covered with a capstone and dug into the earth or built just above it. Taken together, this concentration of monuments points to a landscape that communities returned to repeatedly, layering meaning onto a stretch of north Cork hillside over generations.