Three stones protrude from the northern half of the central mound, set on edge in a manner that suggests a cist burial underneath, a cist being a small stone-lined box grave, typically prehistoric, used to contain human remains or cremated bone. Whether anything survives intact beneath the turf is unknown, but the arrangement is deliberate enough to warrant the designation.

The mound is classified as a ring-barrow, a form of funerary monument in which a central earthen mound is encircled by a fosse, or ditch, and an outer bank. Here the fosse retains water, and the outer bank survives in good condition across most of the circuit, though the southeastern quadrant has suffered some erosion over time. Ring-barrows of this type belong broadly to the Bronze Age and Iron Age tradition of monument-building across Ireland, though precise dating of any individual example without excavation is difficult. The site sits on a break in the slope, which gives it wide, open views to the east and in most other directions, with the ground rising away to the southwest. This kind of elevated, outward-looking placement is common among prehistoric burial monuments, and may reflect something deliberate in how those who built it understood the landscape around them.