What looks, at first glance, like a shallow irregularity in the soil is in fact a ditch barrow, a prehistoric burial monument defined not by a raised mound but by a surrounding fosse, or ditch, that once marked off a circular space as something set apart from the ordinary landscape.

The monument sits off-centre to the north within the enclosure it shares, and its dimensions are modest: roughly 5.8 metres north to south and 5.4 metres east to west, with the defining fosse measuring about 3 metres wide and surviving to a depth of just 0.2 metres. Much of what would once have made it legible on the ground has been disrupted by lazy beds, the narrow ridged strips of cultivated soil associated with potato growing, particularly during the centuries preceding and including the Famine period. Two of these beds run northwest to southeast across the site, cutting through the monument and giving it an oddly sunken appearance. The interior already sits roughly 0.1 metres lower than the surrounding ground, and the disturbance from agriculture has only deepened that impression. An aerial photograph, referenced as OS 2437/6, reveals the barrow more clearly than any ground-level inspection could, showing it as a roughly circular anomaly that the eye can easily reconstruct even where the fosse has been worn almost flat.