The eastern bank of this ring barrow has been absorbed into a field fence, a farm trackway skims its western edge, and a bungalow sits immediately to the west. Yet the structure survives: a raised circular mound roughly eleven metres across, enclosed by a fosse (a surrounding ditch, roughly two and a half to three metres wide) and an outer earthen bank, giving an overall diameter of nearly twenty metres. The interior has gone to long grass and brambles, with trees colonising the outer bank, but the form of the monument remains legible beneath all of it.

A ring barrow is a burial mound of prehistoric date, typically defined by a central raised area enclosed within one or more ditches and banks. The example at Carrowcloghagh sits on a low rise in rolling grassland, with the Deel River passing about 250 metres to the northwest and Nephin Mountain visible on the horizon to the south-southwest, the Nephin Beg Range extending along the western skyline. What makes the location more than incidentally interesting is that this barrow is not alone. A cluster of related monuments, including further ring barrows, possible barrows, and cairns, lies in adjacent fields within roughly 100 to 450 metres to the north, northeast, and east. A possible ring cairn sits about 400 metres to the south. Together, these form a dispersed funerary landscape, a pattern of repeated, deliberate burial activity in this stretch of north Mayo that accumulated over generations, if not centuries, of prehistoric use.