This is not the kind of archaeological site that announces itself. The ring-barrows here, a ring-barrow being a circular burial mound enclosed by a surrounding ditch or fosse rather than a raised outer bank, are modest earthworks, their diameters ranging from just 4.5 metres to 11 metres. There is no dramatic silhouette against the sky, no obvious focal point. What makes the complex unusual is precisely this quality of understatement spread across a working landscape.

The site was described in detail by M. J. O'Kelly in 1944, whose survey remains the principal account of the complex. Writing in that year, O'Kelly noted that eight of the barrows, along with two platforms, occupy one field, while a tumulus sits in the nearest corner of the field to the east, and a ninth barrow occupies the nearest corner of the field to the north. A road runs immediately to the west, with a sand-pit just beyond it. O'Kelly observed that all the barrows share the same method of construction, consisting of very slight circular mounds surrounded by fosses with no outer banks, though their diameters vary considerably. He also noted that no particular arrangement is observable in how they are laid out across the fields, which is itself a point of curiosity: twelve monuments in close proximity, clearly related, yet apparently without the kind of ordered geometry seen at more ceremonial prehistoric complexes elsewhere in Ireland.

Access is along the road that runs immediately to the west of the monuments, which O'Kelly's description places as the clearest navigational reference point. Because the barrows sit in what is described as a lowland marsh meadow, conditions underfoot are likely to be soft, and visiting after a dry spell will make the slight mounded forms easier to read in the landscape. The very subtlety of the earthworks is what rewards careful looking: once your eye adjusts to the low relief of the ground, the circular forms and their enclosing ditches begin to resolve out of what had appeared to be featureless pasture.