It was recorded in 1981 with considerable precision: a circular earthwork 13.25 metres wide, with an external fosse (a ditch) averaging 3.75 metres across, an internal bank rising 15 centimetres above a level interior seven metres in diameter, and thorns covering the bank on the eastern side. A field hedge had begun to bisect and reduce it along the south-western arc. When a survey team returned to the location in 2015, guided by a field map that may itself have been incorrectly marked, they could not find it. The land, noted as apparently never cultivated, gave nothing away.

The barrow sits within a landscape that rewards patient attention even without it. Close by, a Middle to Late Bronze Age fulacht fiadh, a type of burnt mound associated with outdoor cooking or industrial activity, has been recorded near the same stretch of river, though the 2015 team failed to locate that either. About 1.5 kilometres to the west, in Coolure Demesne on Lough Derravaragh, lies one of the more significant crannogs in the county, an artificial or modified island in a lake used as a dwelling or refuge, primarily occupied from the early fifth century AD but with evidence of a Late Bronze Age palisade predating that. Its relationship to a large raised ringfort on the adjacent shore mirrors almost exactly the documented pairing of the royal crannog of Cro-inis and the ringfort of Dún na Sgiath on Lough Ennell to the south, suggesting a recurring pattern of high-status settlement in Westmeath's lake landscapes. Around 1.2 kilometres to the south-south-west, three circular earthworks near the lakeshore at Kiltoom survive only as cropmarks, though the nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey mapped at least one of them as a mound surrounded by a ditch and outer bank, consistent with the ring-barrow form. Small cairn-like crannogs along the same shoreline may be Bronze Age, or may belong to an early medieval phase associated with a nearby church site.