What looks from a distance like a slightly raised, overgrown mound resolves itself, on closer inspection, into a carefully engineered enclosure: a ring barrow, most likely a Bronze Age funerary monument, in which the dead were interred within a low bank and surrounding ditch rather than beneath a solid mound of earth.

The structure is modest in scale but precise in its details. The sub-circular interior measures roughly 5.2 metres north to south and 6.5 metres east to west, enclosed by a fosse (a flat-bottomed ditch) and an outer bank. A causeway 2.3 metres wide crosses the fosse at the north-east, leading to an entrance gap framed by two upright stone slabs. The bank survives best on the southern side, where it still stands 1.5 metres high on its outer face, and the fosse retains a width of 1.2 metres. These proportions, small and deliberate, suggest a monument built around a specific burial or ritual focus rather than any defensive or agricultural function. The term "univallate" simply means it has a single enclosing bank and ditch, distinguishing it from more elaborate multi-ringed examples found elsewhere in Ireland. The site was recorded as a small univallate enclosure on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map, and surveyed in detail as part of a comprehensive archaeological study of the Iveragh Peninsula published by Cork University Press in 1996, compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan.

The setting adds its own quiet gravity. The boggy ground that surrounds the rise would have kept casual visitors at arm's length for millennia, perhaps inadvertently preserving the earthwork from the kind of agricultural disturbance that has erased so many comparable sites elsewhere. The overgrowing vegetation softens the outlines now, but the causeway and the paired entrance slabs remain legible, still pointing north-east as they did when the monument was first raised.