The land around it has been worked and reshaped, but this particular patch has been left alone, reportedly out of superstition. That quiet act of avoidance, repeated across generations, is likely the reason the monument survives at all.

When inspected in July 1987, the feature was identified as a ring-barrow, a type of Bronze Age burial monument consisting of a central raised platform surrounded by a fosse and an outer bank, the whole forming a series of concentric earthen rings. At Reevanagh, the overall diameter runs to eighteen metres, with the central platform measuring eleven metres across and rising just twenty centimetres above the fosse. The surrounding bank, a metre and a half wide, stands forty centimetres high on both its inner and outer faces. The western section of the bank is the best preserved, with soil creep thought to have gradually built up material on that side, while the eastern arc has likely suffered from the same process working in reverse. Locally, the monument is known as a rath, the term more commonly applied to an early medieval ringfort, which hints at how older earthworks were often absorbed into a different layer of folk memory without any particular concern for archaeological precision. It appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a small circular hachured feature, suggesting it was conspicuous enough in the nineteenth century to catch a surveyor's eye, even if its true nature remained unclassified for well over a hundred years.