Of what appears to have originally been thirteen stones, only five remain upright, ranged along the northern perimeter; the rest lie prostrate, toppled at some point in the intervening millennia. The circle's main axis runs north-east to south-west, a deliberate alignment that recurs across Bronze Age monuments throughout the Cork and Kerry uplands, likely reflecting solar or lunar observations important to the communities that raised them. The internal diameter along that axis measures roughly nine metres, making it a modest but purposeful construction rather than a monumental one.

The orthostats, the individual upright stones that form the circle's perimeter, range from 0.6 to 1.25 metres in length and reach heights of up to 1.2 metres, giving the surviving standing stones a low, grounded presence in the landscape. What adds particular interest to the site is a feature immediately to the west of the circle's centre: a possible boulder-burial. Boulder-burials are a distinctly Irish monument type, in which a large, often substantial rock is placed over a burial deposit, sometimes in close association with a stone circle. The co-location here, if that interpretation holds, would suggest the site carried both ceremonial and funerary significance, with the two monument types occupying effectively the same space. The circle lies roughly 400 metres east of the mouth of the Coomhola river, which feeds into Bantry Bay just to the west.