Originally recorded as a platform rath, a type of enclosed homestead raised above the surrounding ground, its shape now points toward something altogether different: a stepped barrow, a funerary monument built in concentric stages rather than as a place of habitation. The distinction matters, because it shifts the structure from the domestic to the ceremonial, from the living to the dead.

The monument is an oval raised platform, roughly 22 metres north to south and 19 metres east to west, standing between 1.2 and 1.4 metres high. Around it runs a broad berm, a flat shelf of ground about 8.5 metres wide, and beyond that an outer bank, modest in height but clearly intentional. There is no entrance, which is itself a significant detail. A rath, used as a farmstead, would need a way in and out; a burial mound has no such requirement. The flat, open terrain around it means the structure would once have been conspicuous against the horizon in every direction, the kind of visibility that prehistoric communities often sought when placing monuments meant to be seen and remembered.

Since a site visit in 1987, the surrounding fields have been planted with forestry, though a buffer was left around the monument itself, keeping it clear of the trees. That planting has changed the character of the place considerably; what was open boggy pasture with wide sightlines is now enclosed by woodland, and the monument sits in a kind of clearing rather than in the exposed landscape its builders would have known.