No entrance gap breaks the circuit of the bank, no fosse, the external ditch that typically surrounds such monuments, cuts into the surrounding ground. Whatever was once placed or buried at its centre, if anything ever was, has left no trace that survives at ground level.

The monument is a circular barrow, a type of raised earthen enclosure generally associated with burial or ritual use in prehistoric Ireland, though the term covers a variety of forms and periods. This example measures eleven metres across internally, with a bank nine metres wide that rises to around 1.4 metres above the interior floor and just over a metre above the outer ground surface. Those are substantial proportions for what is, on the surface at least, an unassuming feature in an agricultural field. It came to light not through excavation but through aerial reconnaissance, the slight shadows and crop variations that betray buried or earthen monuments from above often being invisible to someone walking the land. Roughly sixty metres to the south-west, a holy well shares the same quiet corner of Cloonteen townland, the two monuments sitting close enough together to suggest this was once a place of some local significance, though the nature of any connection between them remains unclear.