Known in Irish as Cloch na Croise, or Clochnacrusha, the stone is 1.25 metres high and 0.35 metres wide, and its eastern face carries the cross in confident, bold relief. The mound itself is roughly 1.5 metres high, and while it once spread across an irregular area some 75 metres north to south and 30 metres wide at its centre, it has contracted noticeably since the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map was made. Dense vegetation makes close examination difficult, which lends the whole site a sense of having quietly receded from view even as traffic passes within metres of it.

The mound belongs to a calluragh, a burial ground of the kind traditionally associated with unbaptised infants or others excluded from consecrated ground, and the wider site clusters a remarkable number of features into a small area. Abutting the north-western edge of the mound is a circular hut of drystone corbelled construction, the ancient technique of stacking stones in overlapping rings to form a beehive-like roof without mortar. Its floor sits 2 metres below the top of the mound and nearly a metre below the surrounding ground level, and its interior diameter is 3.6 metres. The entrance is thought to have faced north. That same interior is now occupied by a corrugated-iron shed, a practical repurposing that is somehow entirely in keeping with the layered, unsentimental quality of the place. Two further hut sites, a souterrain (an underground stone-lined passage often used for storage or refuge), and a number of quern stones used for grinding grain have all been recorded here, as has the Killelton oratory some 300 metres to the south-east. The site was noted by Hickson as early as 1889, and later by Hayward in 1976.