The cairn is modest by any measure, roughly eight metres along its longer axis and just over five metres wide, rising no more than about a metre and a quarter at its highest point to a gently domed peak. Its sides have slumped outward over time, spreading into a low skirt of loose stone around the base, partly claimed now by sod along the northern and eastern edges.

A cairn of this type, a heap of stones accumulated either as a funerary monument, a territorial marker, or simply as field clearance, is a common enough feature in upland Ireland, but the position of this one gives it a quiet authority. Placed at the north-eastern edge of a terrace, it looks out over the Burren lowlands to the north and towards Turloughmore Mountain to the east, a sightline that would have been just as unobstructed whenever the cairn was first assembled. Whether its builders intended that outlook is impossible to say now, but the coincidence of elevation, view, and carefully chosen ground is hard to dismiss entirely.