The mound measures just 7.5 metres in diameter and rises barely a metre from the surrounding ground, making it one of the more unassuming prehistoric monuments in the county. What gives it weight is the company it keeps: this small circular mound is considered the least imposing of a group of possible barrows forming an extensive prehistoric cemetery on the ridge above.

A barrow, in its simplest sense, is a burial mound, typically raised during the Bronze Age to mark a grave or a series of interments, and they occur across Ireland in considerable variety of size and form. This particular example was identified and catalogued by Keeling in 1983, who mapped the wider cemetery grouping across the area and listed this site as Site IV within that survey. Its position is geographically precise: it sits on the northern face of a saddle-backed ridge, close to a townland boundary, on ground that drops away steeply beneath it. That placement, on the brow of a slope rather than a summit, is not unusual for such monuments; the visible horizon from a ridge would have carried symbolic weight for communities who built these structures.

The site is on a working rural landscape and the approach involves navigating uneven, sloping ground. The mound itself is overgrown with gorse, which can make close inspection difficult depending on the season; late winter or early spring, before the gorse is fully in flower and the surrounding vegetation is lower, offers the clearest view of the mound's profile. The single stone on the crest is the most immediately readable feature. No formal access path exists, and the steep northern aspect means the ground can be soft and slippery after rain. The townland boundary nearby provides a useful orientation point for anyone working from an Ordnance Survey map.