This is a ring barrow, a class of prehistoric funerary monument consisting of a raised central platform enclosed by a fosse (a flat-bottomed ditch) and an outer earthen bank. They are found across Ireland and Britain, typically associated with Bronze Age burial practices, though the individuals interred within them and the precise rituals carried out there are rarely recoverable. What makes this particular example quietly arresting is its scale: the interior platform measures approximately 26 metres north to south and 28 metres east to west, making it a substantial presence on the landscape even in its partially altered state.

The monument retains much of its original form, though not without damage. The fosse, between three and four metres wide, survives well on most sides as a shallow, flat-bottomed ditch, but becomes difficult to trace to the northwest, south, and southwest. A field fence cuts across the northwest sector, and a portion of the interior platform has been levelled entirely to the south and southwest, presumably through agricultural activity at some point in the past. The outer bank, which ranges between two and four metres wide at the base and stands up to 1.4 metres in external height, encircles the interior except where the same fieldbank interrupts it to the northwest. A likely entrance gap, around four metres wide, appears to the southeast. Perhaps most intriguing is a small stone-lined mound in the eastern part of the interior, measuring roughly one metre by 1.8 metres, which may mark a burial, though no excavation appears to have confirmed this. The site was documented in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published by C. Toal in 1995.