It is a ring barrow, a type of burial monument in which a low central mound or platform is surrounded by a ditch, known as a fosse, and an enclosing outer bank. The ditch here has long since been filled in, but the basic anatomy of the monument remains legible in the landscape: a roughly circular platform measuring approximately 13.8 metres north to south and 13.4 metres east to west, wrapped by a bank of earth and stone that rises about a metre above the surrounding ground on its outer face.

What gives this particular example a quietly specific character is a detail easily missed: a low revetment of three large stones set inside the bank to the north-west. A revetment, in this context, is a facing of stone used to reinforce or retain an earthen structure, and the fact that three substantial stones survive here suggests something of the original construction method, even if the monument has otherwise softened with age. Ring barrows are generally associated with the Bronze Age, though they continued to be used and adapted across a broad span of prehistoric and early historic time. The interior of this one has been planted with trees at some point, which is common enough on Irish farmland, where ancient earthworks were often put to practical use as shelterbelts or boundary markers. The trees now form a small, incongruous grove rising from the slope, distinguishing the site from the surrounding fields even before its archaeology becomes apparent.