It is easy to pass it without a second glance, but what these stones represent is a deliberate and carefully engineered burial tradition stretching back into prehistoric Ireland. The tomb belongs to a class known as wedge tombs, the most numerous of Ireland's megalithic tomb types, which take their name from the characteristic tapering of the gallery from one end to the other, both in width and in height.

This particular example is modest in scale but well defined in its surviving elements. The gallery runs roughly east-northeast to west-southwest, measuring around three metres in length. At its western end it is approximately one and a half metres wide, narrowing to about one metre at the eastern end, where two sidestones support a single roof stone. A pair of low overlapping stones, aligned with the northern side of the gallery, suggests that the structure once extended further to the west than what now remains. The roofed section descends in height from west to east, which is the defining wedge profile. The whole is set within a low oval mound measuring roughly ten and a half metres by seven and a half metres. The tomb was documented by Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin in their Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, published in 1982, which remains the foundational catalogue for monuments of this type across the southern counties.