It is a bowl-barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument typically consisting of a rounded earthen mound surrounded by a ditch, known as a fosse, and sometimes an outer bank. This particular example is modest in scale, standing less than a metre high and spanning around 24 metres in diameter, with a notably flat top that distinguishes its profile from the more domed barrows found elsewhere.

What gives the site an almost eerie quality is the water. The fosse encircling the mound is not merely a topographic feature but a consistently waterlogged one, visible today as a wet band roughly five metres wide and shallow, sitting at the base of the mound like a natural moat the land itself has maintained. The surrounding terrain slopes gently to the south-west and would have been marshy long before any monument was raised here. Hills are visible to the north, suggesting the site may have been chosen with some awareness of its position in the broader landscape, set apart on low ground with higher country as a backdrop. The barrow does not stand alone in the area either. Two related enclosures lie within roughly 180 metres to the north-west, hinting at a cluster of prehistoric activity across this otherwise unremarkable stretch of Tipperary farmland.