Of the nine stones that once formed the ring, along with two additional stones arranged beyond the entrance to create a short passage, only eight remain, five of them still upright. The passage stones are gone entirely, leaving a circle that has lost its ceremonial approach but retains enough of its layout to suggest what once stood here.

The surviving orthostats, the upright standing stones that form the body of the circle, range from roughly half a metre to just over a metre in height, modest in scale but carefully placed. The inner entrance stones and the axial stone, the single recumbent slab set opposite the entrance and characteristic of the Cork-Kerry stone circle tradition, are among the survivors. The main axis of the monument runs ENE to WSW across an internal span of 7.5 metres, an alignment that is unlikely to be accidental. Stone circles of this type, sometimes called recumbent stone circles for the low flat stone placed with apparent deliberateness at one end of their axis, are thought to date to the mid to late Bronze Age and are concentrated in this part of Munster in a density found nowhere else in Ireland. The researcher Seán Ó Nualláin catalogued this example in 1984 as part of his systematic survey of the Cork and Kerry circles, noting its nine-stone count and the now-vanished passage beyond the entrance.

The setting itself adds something to the experience of the site. Placed on a bogland plateau with the Lee valley opening out to the north, the circle occupies the kind of elevated, slightly remote position common to monuments of its type, far enough from the valley floor to feel apart from ordinary landscape, close enough to overlook it.