Roughly nine metres across and just over a metre high, it is a subcircular, round-topped form, modest in scale but well-preserved, which makes its ambiguity all the more interesting. A drain cuts through its southern section, the sort of practical agricultural intrusion that has damaged or destroyed countless similar sites across Ireland. What the mound actually is remains an open question.

Archaeologists have suggested two possibilities. It may be a boundary mound, a marker placed deliberately at or near the edge of a townland to define territory in the landscape. Alternatively, it could be a fulacht fiadh, a type of prehistoric cooking site found in great numbers across Ireland, typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stones left over from a process of heating water in a trough, most likely for cooking. Fulachtaí fiadh are generally Bronze Age in date, though the term covers a broad range of activity. Without excavation, the two interpretations sit side by side, and the mound keeps its answer to itself.