The site measures approximately 29 metres north to south and 27 metres east to west internally, and it belongs to a class of prehistoric monument known as a ring barrow: a burial enclosure defined by a surrounding ditch, called a fosse, and an outer earthen bank, rather than by a central mound raised high above ground level. What sets this example apart slightly is the way it has been complicated by later human activity. A modern ditch dug around much of the site has artificially inflated the apparent height of the outer bank, which now reads as between two and three metres externally, though the original archaeological fabric tells a more modest story.

The surviving measurements, recorded as part of the North Kerry Archaeological Survey compiled by C. Toal and published in 1995, give a sense of how much of the original structure endures and how much has been lost or obscured. The fosse varies in width between 1.2 and 2 metres, and the bank above it rises internally to between 0.6 and 1.2 metres. To the south and south-west, the banks have been levelled entirely, leaving that arc of the enclosure incomplete. Inside, two features attract attention: a central depression measuring 5 by 5 metres, likely the trace of a burial pit or collapsed burial structure, and a small stone mound in the west-south-west sector of the interior, measuring roughly 3 by 3.2 metres. Ring barrows are generally associated with the Bronze Age, serving as funerary monuments where the emphasis falls on the enclosing earthwork rather than on a prominent central cairn, though the stone mound here adds a layer of ambiguity about what rites were observed and for whom.