Broad and roughly subcircular, measuring roughly 38 metres across its longest axis and rising to about 2.3 metres at its highest point, it sits in low-lying ground and yet commands clear views across a wide arc of the surrounding landscape. It is grass-covered, built up from peat, earth, and stone, and it carries the classification of an enclosure on the national record. The difficulty is that it may not be an enclosure at all.

The site was recorded in the early 1990s on the basis of local information rather than physical evidence of any defining structure. An enclosure, in Irish archaeological terms, typically refers to a defined area bounded by a bank, wall, or ditch, often the remains of an early settlement or ceremonial space. Here, there is no enclosing bank or wall to be found. Neither the 1838 nor the 1929 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps show anything at this location, which complicates any attempt to trace the mound through the documentary record. The mound itself has been disturbed by large quarry holes dug into its top and around its edges, and older cultivation ridges, the kind left by hand-worked lazy-bed farming, run across its surface. Whether the original form was shaped by human hands or simply accumulated over time as a natural rise in the peat is, at present, unresolved. The possibility that the whole feature is entirely natural in origin has been formally noted and left open.