It sits on a slight natural hummock, which would have made it visible across the flat landscape, a quality that almost certainly mattered to whoever built it.

The mound is a barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument found across Ireland and Britain, typically dating from the Neolithic through to the Bronze Age. This particular example measures roughly 24 metres east to west and just under 18 metres north to south. At its centre is a raised platform, a little over 11 metres across and reaching no more than 60 centimetres at its highest point, encircled by a shallow fosse (a ditch) and an outer bank. The overall form is in fair condition, though the southeastern section of the bank and fosse has been disturbed at some point and subsequently backfilled with rubble. There is also a small hollow, about half a metre across, slightly east of the mound's centre. Whether this marks an old excavation, a natural subsidence, or something else entirely is not recorded. The cleared pasture surrounding it now makes the whole structure more legible than it might once have been under heavier vegetation, though it also leaves the mound more exposed to future agricultural pressure.