The central mound measures just four metres in diameter and rises a mere thirty centimetres above the surrounding field. Around it runs a shallow fosse, the term for the encircling ditch characteristic of these monuments, and beyond that a low external bank of similar dimensions. The whole structure is a quiet geometry pressed almost flat into the earth.

Ring barrows are generally associated with Bronze Age burial practice, though their precise function varies; some covered cremated remains, others appear to have been cenotaphs or territorial markers. This example has not escaped the pressures of agricultural improvement: a modern field drain cuts across it from east to south, truncating the monument and interrupting the original circuit. What survives is enough to read the form, but the drainage work has clearly taken its toll. The site does not stand alone in the landscape, either. Immediately to the south-west are the traces of an old field bank, and just ten metres to the west-south-west lies a fulacht fiadh, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and fire-cracked stone beside a trough or pit. The proximity of a fulacht fiadh to a barrow is not unusual in the Irish midlands and south-east, where these monument types often cluster in low-lying, waterlogged terrain that was once more actively used than its current emptiness suggests.