That modest profile is typical of a bowl-barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary earthwork consisting of a low rounded mound, usually encircled by a ditch and sometimes an outer bank. What makes this one quietly interesting is its setting: it sits within a few metres of two other prehistoric monuments on the same hilltop, forming a loose cluster of the dead on a prominence that clearly mattered to the people who built here.

The mound measures roughly 4.5 metres north to south and 4.4 metres east to west, making it a very small example of its type. When it was first recorded in 1979, observers noted a slight hollow in the centre, suggesting some degree of disturbance, likely the result of earlier digging into the mound, a common fate for barrows across Ireland and Britain. A narrow ledge surrounds it, and traces of a fosse, that is, a shallow encircling ditch, survive on the southern and south-eastern sides; on the northern, north-eastern and western sides the feature continues as a low scarp in the ground. A survey carried out in 2012 by David McGuinness confirmed these details, placing the ditch at about 1.5 metres wide. Just 8 metres to the north-east lies a much larger cairn or tumulus, and a second small barrow sits roughly 10 metres to the west-north-west. The ground drops away sharply to the south-west, which may partly explain why the mound appears most pronounced on that side, the slope exaggerating what little height it retains.