Its outline has been pulled out of shape over centuries, first by rabbit burrows honeycombing its structure, then by a field fence that cuts into the eastern bank. What should be a clean circular form is now irregular and patchy, more legible as archaeology than as landscape feature, but present nonetheless.

A ring-barrow is a type of burial monument, typically Bronze Age in origin, built as a low central mound enclosed by a circular ditch and an outer earthen bank. This example measures roughly 40 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west. The external bank reaches about 0.75 metres in height, while the inner fosse, the encircling ditch, runs approximately 6 metres wide. The central mound rises around 0.75 metres above the fosse floor and spreads roughly 7 metres across its flattened upper surface. Three gaps break through the outer bank; the one to the north-north-west may be an original entrance or causeways, while the others appear to be the result of later interference. Within 10 to 20 metres to the south stands a ringfort, a separate monument type associated with early medieval settlement, typically a defended farmstead enclosed by an earthen bank, suggesting that this patch of ground above Ventry was returned to repeatedly across different periods. The details here were first recorded systematically by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey covering the Corca Dhuibhne region.