To an untrained eye it reads as a slight irregularity in the ground, a faint gathering of soil that the field has almost absorbed. To an archaeologist it is a ring barrow, a type of funerary monument common in Bronze Age Ireland, in which a burial, typically of cremated remains, was placed within an area defined by a circular earthen bank and an inner ditch or fosse.

This particular example sits atop a northeast to southwest ridge, which is itself a fairly typical choice of situation for such monuments. The bank that encircles the interior measures around three metres wide, rising half a metre above the ground both inside and out. Just inside the bank runs a shallow fosse, a narrow depression about a metre wide and only twenty centimetres deep, which would originally have reinforced the boundary between the enclosed space and the surrounding land. The overall diameter of the enclosed area is just over twelve and a half metres. The monument has not survived entirely intact. A north to south field fence and drain cuts through the eastern section of the bank, a reminder that agricultural land management across the centuries takes little notice of prehistoric boundaries.