The hollow restricts what you can see at ground level, yet from the plateau itself the Cliffs of Moher and the Aran Islands are visible on the horizon, a reminder that the people who raised these stones were not operating in isolation from the wider landscape. The tomb belongs to a cluster of four known collectively as the Ballynahown group, the others lying roughly 470 to 480 metres to the south-south-west and south-west, all of them embedded within a large field system that was used across multiple periods of prehistory.

A wedge tomb is a type of megalithic burial monument common in the west of Ireland, named for the characteristic way the chamber tapers and lowers toward the back. This example is poorly preserved, but enough survives to read its basic structure. The chamber, aligned roughly south-south-west and running about 3.4 metres in length, rises in height toward its front, as is typical of the form. The western side is formed by a single substantial slab, over three metres long at its base, with a dressed and straight upper edge that suggests careful preparation of the stone. Two displaced slabs near the eastern end of the chamber may originally have formed part of the roof. At the back, two transverse stones cross the end of the chamber with a small gap between them, and one of these leans noticeably to the east with a broken upper edge. Traces of a cairn, the mound of loose stone that would once have covered the whole structure, are visible to the east, and remnants of outer walling survive along the western side. A low enclosing wall runs around the tomb from the south-east to the north, and the gap in it at the north-west is flanked by two set slabs that may have been taken from the tomb itself. The monument was documented by Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin in their 1961 Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, though the surveyors noted that some of the orientations in the written description were recorded incorrectly.