Carn Vael is a Bronze Age cairn, which measures 12 metres in diameter and stands up to 0.9 metres high.  It is composed of very small quartz stones without grass covering and in respect to the use of white stones is unlike other cairns on the island.  William Cubbon recorded a tradition which says that the cairn was formed by people from Baldwin depositing the white stones at the site when travelling to Bishopscourt for sacrament.