What makes it quietly unusual is the arrangement of those stones: four of the six are set radially, meaning they project outward from the mound's edge like spokes from a hub, delimiting the western perimeter of a cairn roughly six metres across and no more than forty centimetres high. A radial-stone cairn is a relatively rare monument type in Ireland, and the term refers precisely to this spoke-like positioning of the stones, which distinguishes it from the more familiar kerbed cairn where stones simply ring the base in a continuous border.

The mound itself is modest in scale, the tallest of its remaining stones reaching just under a metre. Its position on the ridge crest, with the valley falling away to the south, suggests deliberate placement in a landscape that would have been meaningful to whoever raised it, though without excavation the date and purpose of the monument remain uncertain. Cairns of this general type are broadly associated with prehistoric funerary or ritual practice, but the specifics of Gort Na Binne's construction and use are not yet established. The six stones that survive, standing between roughly half a metre and eighty-five centimetres in height, are enough to give the monument a presence in the field, even if the mound they accompany has settled into the pasture over a very long time.