The feature is a ring barrow, a type of funerary monument built during the Bronze Age, in which a central burial area is enclosed by a surrounding ditch and bank. What makes this particular example worth pausing over is not its scale, which is modest, but the way it sits in relation to its neighbours, its external bank merging with the bank of an almost identical ring barrow immediately to the north-west and north-east, so that the two monuments effectively share a boundary.

The barrow itself is small and precise. The enclosed interior measures just four metres in diameter, ringed by a scarped edge roughly eight tenths of a metre wide and only ten centimetres high. Outside that sits a shallow fosse, the term for the ditch that typically separates the central mound or platform from the surrounding bank, with a base width of around forty centimetres. The external earthen bank, now barely visible above ground level, brings the overall width of the encircling earthwork to about two and a half metres. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth, which lends the site a slightly composed quality despite its age. The whole complex was identified through an Ordnance Survey aerial photograph, and there are further examples of similar monuments in the vicinity, suggesting this corner of County Tipperary once held a concentration of prehistoric burial activity that the present pasture quietly conceals.