The cairn is modest in scale, measuring just 2.6 metres across and standing only 0.6 metres above the ground, yet it has held its shape against the encroachment of peat and weather long enough to still be legible as a deliberate human construction.

What keeps it readable as archaeology rather than a random scatter of fieldstone is the arrangement of the stones themselves. Around the south-west and western edges, the stones are set contiguously, edge to edge, forming what surveyors describe as a kerb. A kerb is the defining feature of a kerbed cairn, a boundary that marks the outer limit of the monument and gives structural coherence to what might otherwise look like a pile. Cairns of this general type appear across Ireland and are most commonly associated with burial, though not every example contains identifiable human remains. The bog that now surrounds this one may actually have contributed to its survival, the slowly accumulating peat acting as both insulator and seal against disturbance.