It takes the form of a sub-circular mound, roughly 18 metres across north to south and 14 metres east to west, enclosed within an outer dimension of approximately 30 by 25 metres. What defines it is a scarp, an abrupt slope in the ground, and a fosse, a shallow ditch running around the perimeter, both of which have been partly obscured by a field boundary wall running north to south across the eastern side. East of that wall, no surface trace of the earthwork survives at all. The fact that its outline remains detectable on satellite imagery taken between 2011 and 2013 is itself a measure of how much the physical remains have been reduced.

This kind of earthwork is classified as a barrow, a general term for a burial monument of prehistoric date, though the specific period and function of this particular example have not been established from the available evidence. What gives the site a quiet archaeological resonance is its proximity to a fulacht fia located roughly 130 metres to the north-north-west. A fulacht fia is a type of burnt mound, one of the most common prehistoric field monuments in Ireland, generally associated with the heating of water using fire-cracked stones, though their exact uses remain debated. The pairing of a funerary or ritual earthwork with a burnt mound in the same stretch of marginal ground is not unusual in the Irish prehistoric landscape, and it suggests that this wet, scrubby corner of Kerry was once a place of some regular human activity. A small stream, marking the townland boundary with the neighbouring townland of Maughantoorig, runs approximately 30 metres to the south.