The whole feature measures just under five metres north to south and four metres east to west, making it modest even by the standards of its type. What gives it a particular quiet interest is how much it has been pressed upon by later human activity, with a linear cultivation ridge clipping its western edge, a trace of agricultural effort that slightly truncates the original fosse.

The barrow sits in what appears to have been a much busier landscape in earlier centuries. Those cultivation ridges nearby are thought to be connected to the field system of a deserted settlement at Kilfeakle, a medieval community that at some point was abandoned, leaving its earthworks to subside into the pasture. The barrow itself predates that settlement by a considerable stretch, yet the two have ended up in close proximity, the prehistoric monument absorbed into the edges of a later agricultural world. Within fifty to eighty metres to the south-east lie a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, along with associated enclosures, suggesting that this corner of Kilfeakle Churchquarter accumulated significant activity across many centuries. A small pond lies roughly eight metres to the north of the barrow, a feature that may or may not have bearing on why this location was chosen in the first place, though nothing in the surviving evidence settles the question.