A bowl-barrow is a burial mound of the type common across Ireland and Britain during the Bronze Age, typically a rounded earthen heap enclosed by a shallow ditch, built to cover the remains of the dead and to be seen from a distance. This one is modest but well-formed: a roughly circular mound measuring about 12.5 metres across at the base and rising to just over one and a half metres in height, its summit platform narrowing to around seven metres across.

The mound is ringed by a U-shaped fosse, the ditch that was dug when the barrow was constructed, roughly two and a half metres wide and half a metre deep, the excavated material piled inward to build up the mound itself. At the northern outer edge of the fosse, a large boulder lies prostrate, its original purpose and placement unclear. More puzzling is the evidence of possible quarrying into the summit at some point, upcast soil visible around the southern edges of the top, though this activity falls outside the memory of the current landowner. Whether the disturbance was deliberate antiquarian investigation, casual robbing of material, or something else entirely, no record survives to explain it. The whitethorns growing across the summit and around the margins are a familiar sight on ancient earthworks in Ireland, their presence often reflecting long-term avoidance of the ground by farmers reluctant to disturb what the land holds.