The cairn, a roughly circular pile of stones typically raised over a burial or used as a landscape marker in prehistoric times, measures approximately 4.5 metres east to west. Most of it remains buried in uncut bog, but where peat-cutting has stripped back the western edge, a stretch of exposed stonework becomes visible: a low face of mixed, irregular stones about 4.3 metres long and less than half a metre high. At the centre of the mound there is a depression, the kind of hollow that can suggest an ancient robbing of material, a collapse of whatever internal structure once existed, or simply centuries of slow subsidence.

What gives the site a particular quality is not any single feature but its situation within a small cluster of monuments. A second cairn lies roughly 12 metres to the north, and a third sits in an adjacent field to the southwest. Three cairns within close proximity on upland grazing ground, half-absorbed into the bog, suggests this part of the Miskish foothills carried some significance in the landscape long before the bog began its slow work of concealment. The rough, uneven terrain and the gentle south-facing slope would have been familiar ground to the people who raised these stones, though precisely when, or why in this particular arrangement, the record does not say.