Ring barrows are prehistoric funerary monuments, typically Bronze Age, consisting of a raised central platform where a burial was placed, encircled by a ditch and an outer bank. What makes this one quietly compelling is the precision with which it was laid out, and how much of that layout has survived despite centuries of agricultural use pressing in around it.

The central platform is sub-circular, roughly 6 metres across, and the enclosing fosse, the ditch, is about 2 metres wide and drops some 1.3 metres below the crest of the outer bank. That bank stands approximately 1 metre above the surrounding ground and extends to about 3.5 metres in width, giving the whole monument an overall spread of somewhere between 20 and 27 metres. Two opposed entrances, one to the east and one to the west, may be original features rather than later breaks. On the western side, a causeway 1.4 metres wide still crosses the fosse to reach the central platform, though it is poorly preserved. The eastern entrance is less clear, partly because the bank to the south of it has been removed, and the ground there is disturbed. The south-eastern arc of the outer bank has been absorbed into a field boundary that appears to trace its original line, and livestock movement has caused further breaks. About 75 metres to the south-west, in the next field, a low standing stone adds to the sense that this area was once a deliberate ceremonial or funerary landscape. A comparable ring barrow lies roughly 600 metres to the north-west, at the head of the same valley. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, Corca Dhuibhne.