What makes the arrangement quietly arresting is not the scale of any individual mound but the deliberate organisation of the group: three ring barrows, each slightly larger than the last as you move southward, all contained within a single outer enclosure. Ring barrows are a type of prehistoric funerary monument, typically a low circular mound or flat area ringed by a bank and an inner ditch, and this site presents an unusually coherent grouping of them.

The three barrows were recorded and compiled by archaeologists Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy, with survey data uploaded in July 2018. The northernmost of the three has an external diameter of around eleven metres, the central one stretches to twelve metres, and the southernmost reaches fourteen metres across, with a notably more substantial bank of up to 1.2 metres in height and an inner fosse, or ditch, nearly half a metre deep. That southernmost barrow also doubles as part of the bank forming the outer enclosing area, a detail that suggests the whole complex was conceived as a unified design rather than monuments accumulated piecemeal over time. The ridge setting is characteristic of prehistoric burial practice, placing the dead in elevated, visible positions above the surrounding landscape; here, the ground drops sharply to the Slade valley, with a stream running to the south of the site.

The vegetation gives the site its most immediately distinctive appearance today. The banks of the three barrows are planted with Scots pine, while the outer enclosing bank is lined with thorn, creating a legible contrast that helps the eye separate the inner monuments from their surrounding earthwork. The site lies at the rear of Glenaraneen House, so access would need to be confirmed before visiting. Those who do reach it should look for the subtle gradations in bank height between the northern and southern barrows, and take a moment to read the enclosing oval as a whole, which at 36 metres long and 24 metres wide frames all three within a single coherent prehistoric landscape.