What had survived the Bronze Age did not survive the twentieth century, and the site is now destroyed, leaving little visible trace in what was described as good pasture.

The cairn contained a covered cist, a form of burial common in prehistoric Ireland in which a stone-lined box, typically large enough to hold a crouched body and a few grave goods, was capped with a flat slab and covered by a mound of stones or earth. The site was noted as early as 1935 in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, which places it within a body of archaeological observation that was already trying to record what the landscape still held. By the time the area was surveyed more thoroughly in the 1990s, the cairn was already gone.