It is a barrow, a type of prehistoric burial mound found across Ireland and Britain, typically dating from the Bronze Age, though the term covers a broad range of funerary monument. What survives here is modest: a roughly oval area measuring about 6.4 metres north to south and 7 metres east to west, defined by an earthen bank that still stands to around 0.45 metres in height. The western to north-north-western arc of that bank has been levelled, likely through centuries of agricultural activity on land that has long been given over to grazing.

The site was recorded as part of an archaeological survey of Ballinrobe and the surrounding district, including the Lough Mask and Lough Carra area, compiled by D. Lavelle and published in 1994 by the Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association. Beyond that, the written record is spare. No excavation findings are documented here, no grave goods, no dating evidence drawn from the mound itself. What the survey captured was simply what the ground still shows: a circular enclosure on high ground, worn down but not entirely erased.