What remains is a ditch barrow, a form of funerary enclosure in which a circular area of ground is defined not by a raised mound but by a surrounding fosse, a shallow ditch cut into the earth, with the enclosed space left more or less level at the centre. The example at Mooresfort measures roughly 4.8 metres north to south and 4.5 metres east to west, modest dimensions even by the standards of a monument type that was never built to impress from a distance.

The fosse itself is just about perceptible. It runs some 2.4 metres wide but reaches only 0.17 metres in depth, and the interior sits a mere 0.07 metres below the surrounding ground level. The near-invisibility of the feature is thought to result from centuries of cattle erosion, the slow, patient work of hooves and grazing compressing and spreading the earthwork until the distinction between ditch and enclosed platform is barely legible. The barrow sits just off-centre to the north-east within a larger enclosure, which suggests the two features were either related in their original function or that the barrow was incorporated into a later landscape arrangement, though the record does not resolve that question.