The mound measures roughly eight metres across and stands less than a metre high from the base of that surrounding ditch, with a flat top defined by a narrow earthen rim. Locally, nobody calls it a barrow. The field is known as "fort field" and the mound itself is called a fort, a common enough misidentification in rural Ireland, where prehistoric burial monuments and early medieval enclosures often get bundled together in living memory under the same vague term.

The mound is a bowl-barrow, a form of prehistoric funerary monument typically consisting of a rounded or flat-topped earthen mound enclosed by a ditch, and it apparently concealed the kind of thing such monuments were built for. Sometime in or before 1934, when the detail was recorded by Bowman, the landowner's great-grandfather decided to level the mound and dug into its top. At around three feet down, he struck a large stone slab, and beneath it were bones. The digging stopped, or at least the levelling did, because the mound is still there. The bones and the slab are not described further, and whether they were reinterred, removed, or simply left is not recorded. What remains is a mound with a slightly disturbed top, an earthen rim still holding its shape, and a faint external rise visible from the north-east around to the south-west, the whole thing improbably intact given that someone once took a spade to it with the intention of making it disappear.