A ring-barrow is a type of funerary monument typical of the Bronze Age, consisting of a central area thought to cover a burial, surrounded by a ditch and an outer bank rather than the solid mound of a conventional barrow. This one measures nearly twenty metres across in total, with a flat central platform of about six and a half metres in diameter at its core. What makes it particularly legible as a designed space is the causewayed entrance on the south-eastern side, a deliberate gap left in both the fosse and the outer bank, suggesting that access to the interior was always a considered act rather than an afterthought.

The monument appeared on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, recorded there as a circular enclosure roughly sixteen metres in diameter. By the time the 1901 revision was produced, it had vanished from the cartographic record entirely, the kind of quiet disappearance that happened to countless earthworks as they were absorbed into farmland or simply overlooked by surveyors working to different priorities. The earthworks themselves survived, however. The surrounding fosse is still around half a metre deep, and the outer bank retains a height of nearly a metre on its inner face. The dimensions are precise enough to suggest the monument has not been dramatically disturbed, even if it has been largely forgotten.

Visitors approaching the site today will find the monument heavily overgrown with furze, the dense, spiny shrub that colonises undisturbed ground across Irish hillsides and makes close inspection of earthwork details difficult. The causewayed entrance in the south-eastern sector, roughly two metres wide across the fosse and three metres through the bank, remains the most structurally distinct feature, and the elevated ridge position still delivers the long eastward views that whoever chose this site clearly intended.