A ring barrow, a prehistoric burial monument consisting of a raised central platform encircled by a ditch and an outer bank, this one measures twenty metres across in total, with the inner platform alone spanning 12.2 metres. The outer bank is compact and well-preserved for most of its circuit, dipping only at the north-west to north-north-east. What draws the eye, beyond the form itself, is its placement: set close to the break of slope at the south-eastern end of a ridge, it commands long views across to the Ox Mountains in the east and south, and to Nephin Mountain and the Nephin Beg range to the west. A stream runs roughly fifty-five metres to the south, at the foot of the slope below.

The monument's finer details raise small questions that remain unanswered. At the south-east, a narrow causeway, just 1.4 metres wide, crosses the fosse, the encircling ditch, and corresponds to a low gap in the outer bank. Whether this entrance was part of the original design or a later modification is not clear. Just outside the bank to the north sits a low, sod-covered linear mound, four metres long and under a metre high, whose purpose is equally uncertain; it may be accumulated field clearance or the remnant of a boundary, unrelated to the monument itself. That ambiguity is characteristic of these sites. Ring barrows are generally associated with the Bronze Age, and while they are understood as funerary or ritual features, individual examples rarely yield enough surviving evidence to say much with confidence about the people who built or used them.

The site sits in farmland, and the ridge-top position that made it so visually prominent in prehistory also means it remains easy to spot in the landscape today. The view it commands, across an expanse of Mayo bog and mountain, gives some sense of why whoever chose this spot may have done so deliberately, whether for the dead to overlook the living, or simply because a ridge-end above a stream, with the mountains ranged around it, was a place that already felt significant.