The site only became known through analysis of OS aerial images, which revealed an oval earthwork measuring roughly 21.5 metres north to south and 23 metres east to west, raised nearly a metre above the surrounding ground. It is the kind of place that reads as a gentle rise underfoot, easy to cross without a second thought, yet it preserves beneath its grass a carefully constructed prehistoric funerary monument.

The site is classified as a barrow, the general term for a burial mound or earthen monument associated with the dead, typically dating to the Bronze Age in Irish contexts. What makes this particular example structurally interesting is its complexity. A substantial bank, over seven metres wide, encircles the oval interior, and along the northern arc there is evidence of a fosse, a surrounding ditch, roughly twelve metres wide and descending to about 0.7 metres in depth. The bank survives best in the northern quadrant, where it retains close to its full height, while elsewhere it has been reduced to a low scarp or has become so gradual as to be almost imperceptible. Inside the gently south-west-sloping interior, two further ditch barrows sit within the larger enclosure, suggesting the site accumulated meaning and use over time rather than being built in a single episode. Young forestry plantation to the west and north now partially encloses the pasture in which the monument sits, pressing in on a landscape that was once, presumably, open ground chosen with deliberate intention.