It is a boulder-burial, a monument type found almost exclusively in the southwest of Ireland and dated broadly to the Bronze Age. The form is simple: a substantial cover-stone, here rectangular and flat-topped, raised off the ground on support-stones to create a low enclosed space. In this case a pad-stone has been added against the northern support to help bear the weight, suggesting careful construction rather than casual placement.

The cover-stone measures 1.5 metres along its northeast to southwest axis and 1.2 metres across, sitting about 0.9 metres above the ground. What makes the location particularly striking is not the monument in isolation but the concentration of prehistoric activity around it. Roughly 49 metres to the southwest stands a stone row, one of the long alignments of upright stones that punctuate this part of Cork and Kerry. Within 95 to 100 metres to the northwest there is a second stone row, a five-stone circle, and a cairn, a heap of stones that often, though not always, covered a burial. Taken together, this cluster points to a landscape that was organised and ceremonially significant over a long period, with Barraboy Mountain visible on the horizon and the surrounding valleys falling away from the high ground where the monuments sit.

The site lies in rough hill pasture just northeast of the townland boundary saddle, and the unimproved ground around it means the approach is likely to be wet underfoot. The views that made this elevated spot meaningful to Bronze Age communities are still there, which helps in reading the landscape as something more than scattered stones.