It measures roughly ten metres long and eight and a half metres wide, and gives away nothing of its former shape. Yet this unremarkable-looking cairn is what remains of a clochan, the corbelled dry-stone beehive hut associated with early Christian monastic life and the rural vernacular architecture of the western seaboard. The structure has been reduced over time to something almost entirely featureless, its original circular form now only a memory held in the stones themselves.

The site sits just to the north of a second clochan, and both fall within a cluster of remains known collectively as Baile na mBocht, a placename that translates roughly as the townland or settlement of the poor. When the geologist and antiquarian G. H. Kinahan recorded it in 1869, he described it as the ruin of a circular cloghaun, suggesting that even then the structure had lost most of its legible form. By the time Tim Robinson surveyed the area in 1980, the collapse was complete enough that what remained could only be described as a stone cairn. The grouping of two clochans in close proximity, within a named settlement complex, points to some kind of sustained occupation or communal use, though the record is too spare to say much more than that.