The site is a ditch barrow, a type of funerary monument in which the burial or commemorative area is defined not by a raised mound but by a surrounding fosse, the term for a shallow encircling ditch. This particular example measures just two metres across, with the fosse itself reaching a width of 1.2 metres and a depth of barely seven centimetres in places, much of it permanently waterlogged. It is, by any measure, a remnant rather than a monument.

The site was not identified on the ground at all but from the air, picked out on an aerial photograph where the circular form of the ditch showed up as a ring-ditch, that characteristic crop or soil mark left when a buried fosse retains different moisture levels from the surrounding ground. The rough pasture around it remains wet despite drainage efforts, and a field boundary runs north-north-west to south-south-east about nineteen metres to the east. Beyond its classification and its dimensions, the record offers little else: no excavation, no associated finds, no confirmed date. Ditch barrows as a class belong broadly to prehistoric funerary practice in Ireland, though without investigation this one cannot be assigned to any particular period with confidence.