The mound is modest in scale, roughly six metres east to west and just under seven metres north to south, rising less than a metre at its highest points. What makes it quietly arresting is not its size but its type: this is a probable ring-barrow, a form of prehistoric funerary monument in which a central mound is encircled by a ditch and an outer earthen bank, the whole ensemble marking a place of burial or ritual significance from the Bronze Age or earlier.

When inspectors visited in 1998 they found a gently domed, apparently earthen mound with a shallow hollow adjacent to it on the south-west side. An earlier report, of uncertain date, described the site more fully, noting a central low mound surrounded by a ditch and external bank, approximately ten metres in diameter, and recording that it had been slightly damaged at some point during digging in spring. The discrepancy in dimensions between the two accounts may reflect that damage, or simply the difficulty of reading an eroded earthwork in rough upland pasture. A second ring-barrow lies roughly sixty metres downslope to the south-west, suggesting this plateau was not chosen casually; the pairing of monuments on prominently placed ground is a pattern seen elsewhere in Irish prehistoric landscapes.