Most ring barrows, the low circular earthworks that Bronze Age communities raised over their dead or used for ritual purposes, survive as subtle but legible marks on the landscape. This one, on the slopes of Scartnadrinymountain in County Waterford, does not survive at all. It was removed during land reclamation in 1992, leaving nothing visible where a circular earthwork roughly twenty-five metres across once sat at the floor of a broad valley, with the Araglin river cutting through a ravine just to the south.

What had been there was notable in its setting as much as its form. The ring barrow occupied the bottom of a northeast-to-southwest oriented valley in the Monavullagh Mountains, an unusual position; these monuments are more commonly found on elevated or prominent ground. Its interior was slightly dished, a detail suggesting the original mound material had either been spread or eroded inward over time, leaving a shallow bowl within the encircling bank. Archaeologist Michael Moore, writing in 1995, placed it within a broader Bronze Age settlement and ritual landscape centred on the Monavullagh Mountains, a region that appears to have supported considerable prehistoric activity. The monument was recorded with an external diameter of approximately twenty-five metres and an internal diameter of around seventeen metres, making it a substantial example of the type before its destruction.