The mound itself now reads as a D-shape rather than the rounded form it once had, a distortion caused not by archaeology but by cattle, which have worn away the southern side in recent times. What remains intact rises to about 66 centimetres on its undamaged sides, and its flattened top sits on the summit of a low hill, the kind of modest elevation that prehistoric communities in Ireland often chose for burial monuments.

Surveyed in 2012, the mound is described as subcircular and approximately flat-topped, measuring around 4.5 metres north to south and 6.1 metres east to west. The discrepancy of more than 1.5 metres between those two measurements is telling: given the curve of what survives, the original north-to-south diameter may have been closer to 6.5 metres, suggesting a considerable portion of the mound has been lost. A mound barrow is broadly an earthen burial monument heaped over one or more interments, and this one does not sit alone. Some 20 metres to the east-northeast lies a ring-barrow, a related but distinct type of monument consisting of a low mound enclosed by a circular ditch and bank. The two appear to be connected by scarps, shallow terraced landforms cut into the hillside, which may indicate that the monuments were laid out as part of a deliberate funerary landscape rather than placed independently.