It is a mound barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument in which the dead were interred beneath a raised earthen heap, and this one has been partially levelled over time, most likely by repeated ploughing. What remains measures roughly thirteen metres north to south and ten metres east to west, rising only about forty centimetres at its highest point, which gives some sense of how much has been lost to centuries of agricultural use.

What makes it more interesting than its modest dimensions suggest is the company it keeps. This barrow is one of a cluster of four tumuli in the same field, the others recorded nearby under separate monument numbers. Just to the south lies a burial ground and a cist, the latter being a small stone-lined grave of a kind associated with Bronze Age burial practice. Together, these features point to a landscape that was, at some point in prehistory, deliberately chosen and repeatedly used for the burial of the dead. The grouping of monuments in this way is not unusual in Irish archaeology; such concentrations often indicate that a site held ritual or ancestral significance over a long period, with communities returning to an already-marked place to inter their own.