It is almost perfectly circular, stretching roughly thirty metres across and rising to about three metres in height, which makes it a substantial presence for something so little discussed. What draws the eye, once you know to look, are two shallow depressions in the north-eastern portion of the mound. These may indicate the presence of cists, the small stone-lined burial chambers that prehistoric communities used to inter their dead, though the word "possible" in any archaeological description carries considerable weight.

Cairns of this type belong broadly to the prehistoric funerary tradition found across Ireland, in which mounded stone was heaped over burials, sometimes with a kerb of larger upright or recumbent stones defining the outer edge. Here, no such kerb is visible at the surface, which could mean the cairn was never kerbed, or simply that any edging stones have been displaced or buried over the centuries. The dimensions suggest real effort and intention on the part of whoever raised it. A mound thirty metres in diameter is not the work of an afternoon, and the near-circular plan points to a deliberate rather than incidental construction.