A ring barrow is a circular burial monument, typically from the Bronze Age, defined by a low mound or level interior enclosed by a bank and ditch arrangement. This one measures just five metres across, making it modest even by the standards of a monument type that was never built to dominate a landscape.

The structure consists of a circular earthen scarp, a shallow fosse, which is simply a surrounding ditch, and a low external bank beyond it. All of these elements survive, though unevenly. The western half of the circuit remains the more legible, while the eastern half has sunk so close to ground level as to be nearly imperceptible underfoot. The interior is level and free of overgrowth. What makes the site more than a solitary curiosity is its context: it sits at the eastern margin of a cluster of related monuments, including two further ring barrows roughly a hundred metres to the south-west and west-south-west, and at least four ditch barrows within sixty to ninety metres to the south and south-west. Ditch barrows differ slightly from ring barrows in that the enclosing ditch is a more dominant feature than any central mound. Together, these monuments form a small but coherent prehistoric funerary landscape scattered across the gently rolling ground of Ballynaveen, the kind of grouping that suggests deliberate, repeated use of a place for the burial of the dead across an extended period.