The mound itself has been levelled over time, but a gently raised circular area roughly 12.6 metres north to south and 11.5 metres east to west still survives, ringed by a shallow external fosse, a ditch that once defined the monument's boundary, now only around 0.3 metres deep. It is the kind of site that asks something of your imagination at ground level, though aerial photography has revealed it as a clear crop mark, the buried archaeology expressing itself through differences in how the vegetation grows above it.

A ring barrow is a prehistoric burial monument, typically a low earthen mound enclosed by a circular ditch, and they are found widely across Ireland and Britain, most often dating to the Bronze Age. By the time the 1936 Ordnance Survey six-inch map was drawn, this particular example at Cloghanughera was still legible enough to be hachured, a cartographic technique using short radiating lines to indicate a raised feature. That the monument was subsequently levelled, probably through agricultural activity in the intervening decades, is a common enough story for low-lying earthworks in productive farmland. What survives is slight but measurable, and the crop mark evidence confirms that the broader archaeology of the site remains intact below the surface.