This particular cairn, one of the cluster, is a subcircular mound roughly nine and a half metres north to south and nine metres east to west, rising to its greatest height of about 1.4 metres at the northern edge. To the south-east, the land drops sharply to a cliff some 65 metres below, which gives the hilltop an abrupt, exposed quality unusual even by Burren standards. The hill itself is semi-karst terrain, meaning the underlying limestone occasionally breaks through to the surface in the manner associated with the wider Burren landscape, and the cairn sits within a large field system that spans several different periods of use.

The stonework here rewards closer attention. A revetment is a retaining course of stones built to hold a cairn's rubble in place, and this mound preserves traces of two such courses: an outer revetment, of which two large stones are still visible at the north-north-east and east, and an inner revetment at the east-south-east, where two slabs up to 1.7 metres long remain set on edge. The antiquary T. J. Westropp, writing in 1913, recorded those inner slabs as the remains of a cist, a small stone-lined burial box, measuring approximately 1.83 metres in length. He also observed what he described as a "mass of stones of doubtful nature" in a hollow at the north-west of the cairn, a phrase that has not been resolved in the time since. Whether that hollow represents a disturbed burial, a structural feature, or something else entirely remains an open question sitting quietly at the edge of the mound.