It is a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument in which a central mound is encircled by a fosse (a ditch) and an outer bank, the whole arrangement designed to set apart the dead from the living landscape. This one measures just over thirteen metres across, with the central mound rising no more than half a metre at its highest point. That modesty of scale is part of what makes such sites so routinely overlooked.

The monument is in fair condition overall, though a laneway cutting through the northwest edge has caused some damage, the kind of slow attrition that centuries of agricultural use tends to leave on earthworks that were never given walls or stone to protect them. The central mound, flat-topped and roughly four metres in diameter, retains enough of its original form to read clearly as a deliberate construction rather than a natural undulation in the ground. Ring barrows of this type are generally associated with the Bronze Age, though the tradition of burial mounding stretches across a long span of Irish prehistory, and without excavation the precise date of any individual example remains uncertain.