The monument is a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument defined by a central raised area enclosed within a surrounding ditch, known as a fosse, and an outer earthen bank. Here the fosse is shallow and the bank almost entirely levelled, meaning the whole structure has been worn down to something more like a faint signature in the ground than an obvious mound. Its central area measures roughly thirteen metres across, which gives a sense of deliberate, considered construction, even if centuries of agriculture have softened its edges almost to nothing.

The site is likely one of three features described as tumuli in this townland by a researcher named Bowman, writing in 1934. Two further possible ring barrows lie to the north and north-east, suggesting that this corner of Cork once held a small cluster of funerary or commemorative monuments, perhaps marking the presence of a community that returned repeatedly to the same ground for burial or ritual over generations. Ring barrows belong broadly to the Bronze Age, though they can span a wide chronological range, and their grouping in a landscape is not unusual. Communities across prehistoric Ireland often arranged such monuments in loose clusters rather than in isolation, creating what might loosely be called ancestral landscapes, places where the dead were made a permanent, visible part of the living environment.