Roughly circular, with a diameter of around sixty metres, it is substantial enough to catch the eye and to prompt questions, yet ambiguous enough that no firm answer has ever been given. It may be entirely natural in origin. It may not be.

The mound first came to formal attention through aerial photography, identified on a GSI photograph from the 1973 to 1977 survey series. From above, its circular form is clear, though clarity of shape does not settle the underlying question. Burial mounds, or tumuli, were raised across Ireland from the Neolithic period onward, sometimes on a considerable scale, as monuments to the dead and markers in the landscape. Whether this mound in Remeen was ever put to such a purpose remains unconfirmed. There is some evidence of small-scale quarrying into its south-eastern quadrant, which may have disturbed whatever lay beneath, or may simply reflect later use of a convenient natural feature. The two possibilities sit uneasily alongside each other, and no excavation appears to have resolved the matter.