The mound is nearly conical, with a truncated top, and rises somewhere between 2.44 and 3.5 metres depending on where you measure and how much of the vegetation you can push through. Gorse and other growth cling so densely to its sides that a surveyor working in 2015 could only get a reliable measurement from the north-east face. The upper surface, where it can be examined at all, is irregular and disturbed, a condition that has more than one explanation.

On the south-western side of the mound there is a hollow roughly three metres across, most likely the work of treasure-hunters at some point in the past. Within that hollow sits a limestone flag measuring about 1.36 by 0.87 metres; it rocks when pressure is applied and is hollow underneath, and it may be a displaced cist-stone. A cist is a small stone-lined grave box, typically associated with Bronze Age burials, and a fieldworker who visited the site in May 1983 recorded the flag and a few other stones nearby as probable evidence of one, dug into and partially shifted by earlier interference. The sides of the mound have been broken into in several places, notably on the south-west, north-east, and south-east faces. Despite being classified elsewhere as a bowl-barrow, a type of round barrow normally defined by a surrounding ditch, there is no ditch here, and the monument is more accurately described as a tumulus or mound-barrow: a raised earthen burial monument without that encircling feature. What gives the site an additional layer of quiet interest is a 1775 estate map held in the National Library of Ireland. The map does not depict the mound itself, but it labels the field containing it as "Moat Division", suggesting that even in the eighteenth century the local landscape was being read in relation to this old earthwork, which had apparently given the field its name long before anyone thought to record it formally.