It is only when you begin to read its contours carefully that the structure reveals itself as something deliberately, almost geometrically, purposeful. This is a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument in which a central burial mound is enclosed by a circular ditch, known as a fosse, and an outer earthen bank. The overall diameter here is roughly 16 metres, though the central mound itself rises no more than 0.6 metres above the fosse at its highest point. On a sloping hillside, the geometry is subtly warped by topography: the outer bank barely registers on the uphill northern side, while on the downhill southern side it reaches a more pronounced 0.6 metres. The effect is quietly asymmetrical, shaped as much by the lie of the land as by any original blueprint.

What makes the monument a little more legible than many of its kind is the evidence of two opposed entrances, one to the east and one to the west, which would have allowed deliberate, possibly ceremonial, access to the interior. The western gap retains a single course of stones lining its southern edge, a modest but legible survival. To the east, the gap has widened to between five and six metres, probably through later disturbance, and the fosse in that area has almost disappeared, suggesting there may once have been a causeway crossing it. Slight traces of stone revetting, the reinforcing of an earthen face with stone, survive on the outer bank at the north-west. The barrow forms part of a small cluster of two or possibly three similar monuments in the same area, documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey of Corca Dhuibhne. Their proximity on the same hillside spur suggests this stretch of ground held some sustained significance for the communities who shaped it, though precisely when, and for whom, remains unresolved.