The whole structure is contained within a mound measuring sixteen metres long and twelve metres wide, and what survives is just enough to read the original design without quite completing it.

Court tombs are among Ireland's oldest monument types, typically dating to the fourth millennium BC. They take their name from the open, usually semicircular forecourt formed by upright stones at one end, which is thought to have served a ceremonial function before or around the burial gallery behind it. At this site, the court survives in partial form at the eastern end: three stones running in line with the gallery wall make up the northern arm, while the southern arm is traced by a curved arrangement of smaller stones. Behind the court, the gallery runs on an east-north-east to west-south-west axis, roughly six metres long and just under two metres wide. A pair of jambs set transversely across the interior divides the space into two chambers, a structural feature seen across the court tomb tradition. The southern side of the eastern chamber is now missing. Further complicating the picture, the remains of a later house stand at the northern end of the mound itself, a reminder that prehistoric monuments were rarely left undisturbed by subsequent generations who needed building stone or level ground. The tomb was documented by Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin in their 1972 survey of megalithic tombs across the Irish midlands and west.