What makes it worth a second look is the degree of structural detail that survives: this is a wedge tomb, a type of megalithic burial monument built during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, typically characterised by a roofed stone gallery that narrows and lowers from one end to the other, like a stone wedge laid on the earth.

The gallery here runs roughly east to west and measures 4.4 metres in length, wide at the western end at nearly two metres and tapering to under a metre at the east. Six sidestones line the northern wall, four the southern, and a backstone sits just outside the gallery walls at the eastern end. Two upright pillar stones frame the western entrance, and a prostrate slab lying between them may once have served as a closing stone, sealing the chamber. Closely set outer walling, an additional skin of stonework built against the outside of the gallery walls, survives along both the north and south sides, which is an unusually complete feature. The gallery's deliberate taper in height from west to east is still readable in the stonework. A large stone standing on its end in the eastern portion, and a displaced stone near the western end, are thought to be roofstones, no longer in their original positions but not far from them. Faint traces of the earthen or stone mound that would once have covered the whole structure survive to the west and south. Roughly ten metres to the south, a large separate block stands on its own, its relationship to the tomb not fully resolved. The site was documented by Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin in their 1982 survey of megalithic tombs across Cork, Kerry, Limerick, and Tipperary, a volume that remains a foundational reference for this class of monument.