It measures just over two metres across, its interior dome-shaped and raised only marginally above the surrounding ground. What marks it out is the fosse, a shallow encircling ditch, that defines its edge; a fosse being simply a cut dug into the earth to delineate or protect a space. In this case the ditch is modest, between five and twelve centimetres deep and roughly one and a half metres wide, but its presence is what classifies this feature as a ditch barrow, a form of prehistoric funerary or ceremonial monument found across Ireland.

The site sits on elevated ground shaped in part by old water channels, which may well have influenced why this particular spot was chosen in the first place. Elevated positions near water boundaries held clear significance for prehistoric communities, and the clustering here is telling. Two further ditch barrows lie close by, one abutting to the west-north-west at a distance of around two metres, another approximately ten metres to the west. Three monuments of the same type gathered within such a short distance of one another suggest this was not a casual or isolated act of burial or ritual, but part of a more deliberate arrangement, a small prehistoric landscape that the later agricultural improvement of the pasture has largely absorbed without entirely erasing.