The earthwork is a ring barrow, a type of Bronze Age funerary monument typically consisting of a raised central mound surrounded by a ditch and an outer bank, sometimes used to cover or mark the cremated remains of the dead. What makes this particular example quietly compelling is that it almost did not survive at all. The landowner, when the site was examined, recalled that roughly fifty years before the survey it had been substantially levelled, and could describe what had once stood there: a central platform around four and a half feet in height, ringed by a ditch.

Despite that levelling, the barrow has not entirely disappeared into the farmland around it. The circular central platform still measures fifteen metres in diameter, though it now rises only half a metre above the base of the encircling ditch, a shadow of its former height. The ditch itself is three metres wide, and beyond it an outer bank four metres across still holds its shape. A possible entrance two metres wide appears on the eastern side, which, if intentional, may reflect a deliberate orientation common in prehistoric monuments of this type. The full southern extent of the site is difficult to define on the ground. The monument sits fifteen metres west of a small stream. Michael Connolly examined the site as part of his 2008 doctoral thesis on the prehistoric settlement of the Lee Valley near Tralee, which situated the barrow within a broader landscape of early human activity in this part of Kerry.