The feature is a ring barrow, a type of funerary monument typically consisting of a low central mound or flat area enclosed by a circular or oval ditch, sometimes with an outer bank beyond it. What makes this one quietly arresting is precisely how little of it remains above ground, and yet how much structure can still be read in the landscape once you know what you are looking at.

The site was identified as a circular feature on an aerial photograph during fieldwork in 2009. On the ground, it presents as an oval area measuring roughly 4.5 metres north to south and 5.7 metres east to west, defined by a fosse, that is, a shallow surrounding ditch, about 2 metres wide and only 5 centimetres deep. An old land drain running roughly northwest to southeast has cut across the south-south-western arc of that ditch, disturbing the circuit. On the western side, there are possible traces of an outer bank, very low indeed, with an internal height of around 5 centimetres and an external height of about 12 centimetres. A poorly drained area to the southwest may also reflect the original earthwork's influence on local hydrology. Sitting just 2 metres to the southeast is a companion monument, a ditch barrow, a related but formally distinct monument type. The pairing of the two suggests this corner of Tipperary once held some significance in the prehistoric burial landscape, even if farming over the centuries has pressed both monuments close to invisibility.