The site belongs to a complex of twelve monuments, and the ring-barrows here are among the quieter members of that group. A ring-barrow is a burial mound of prehistoric origin, typically a low earthen heap encircled by a ditch, known as a fosse, and sometimes an outer bank. They are common enough across Ireland, but the conditions at Cahercorney make these particular examples easy to overlook and difficult to reach.

The scholar O'Kelly described the two ring-barrows in 1943, recording them with the kind of precise, unhurried attention that fieldwork of that era demanded. He noted that both sat on the eastern side of a central axis, one falling entirely within the north-east quadrant, the second straddling the north-east and south-east. Their dimensions were modest even then: overall diameters of roughly 5.5 metres and 7.3 metres respectively, each surrounded by a continuous fosse. What makes the broader complex at Cahercorney additionally curious is that the majority of its twelve monuments, all except numbers one to five, lie within a low-land marsh. Several of them, including numbers one, two, three, ten, eleven, and twelve, do not appear on the Ordnance Survey maps at all, an omission O'Kelly noted in his published account from 1942 to 1943 and one that has shaped how little attention the site has received since.

The monument's outline remains legible in Digital Globe aerial photographs, and aerial survey photographs taken in January 2003 under the Archaeological Survey of Ireland are attached to the site record. For anyone approaching on the ground, the marshy terrain is the main practical consideration; the low, water-logged landscape that helped preserve these features for millennia makes a casual visit demanding. The mounds themselves are subtle, their fosses shallow, and without the overhead perspective that aerial photography provides, they can read as unremarkable undulations in wet ground. The site record was compiled by Caimin O'Brien and uploaded in February 2020, and the entry forms part of the wider monument reference LI032-073001 to 013.