The monument is a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary enclosure in which a roughly circular area is defined by an earthen bank, typically surrounding a burial or commemorative space at its centre. This one measures about twelve metres east to west and eleven metres north to south, with a bank roughly three metres wide and no more than forty centimetres high at its tallest. Rush covers the interior, and a few loose stones lie scattered within it, along with some slight undulations near the northern edge. The whole thing is unassuming to the point of near-invisibility.

What lifts the site out of isolation is its company. Two further barrows lie within a few hundred metres: one approximately 160 metres to the northwest, another roughly 135 metres to the west-southwest. Together they form a loose cluster along the ridge, a pattern that appears elsewhere in Irish prehistory, where the dead were interred or commemorated in proximity to one another across open elevated ground. The ridge itself opens to wide views in most directions, the exception being to the west-northwest, which gives the location a quality that would not have been lost on whoever chose it. An aerial photograph taken by Markus Casey in 1998 shows the earthwork from the south, its subcircular outline just legible against the surrounding pasture.