The cairn, subcircular in plan and measuring roughly 2.6 metres by 2 metres with a height of around 1.4 metres, has the rounded, hummocked look of something that has settled gradually into the landscape over a very long time. Cairns of this wayside type, essentially deliberate accumulations of stone placed at a particular spot, appear across Ireland in various forms and periods, sometimes marking boundaries, sometimes associated with routes used by funeral processions, sometimes serving purposes that are no longer recoverable.

What gives this particular cairn its quiet interest is its relationship to the surrounding landscape. Some 100 metres to the west lies a separate group of similar cairns, suggesting that this is not an isolated deposit but part of a broader pattern of deliberate stone-placing in the area. More striking still, around 30 metres to the north of the main cairn, a scatter of loose stone piles sits on the ground. These may be the denuded remains of further cairns, structures that have lost their coherence over time through weathering, agricultural disturbance, or simple opportunistic stone-robbing, a common fate for loose limestone structures in areas where field walls were constantly being built and repaired. The cumulative picture is of a locality that was once marked out by multiple cairns, most of which have not survived intact.