Its northern wall now forms part of a townland boundary fence, a detail that says something about how ancient structures tend to survive in Ireland: not through grand preservation efforts, but through accidental usefulness. The tomb sits on a narrow terrace cut into a ridge of outcropping rock, with no visible trace of the earthen mound that would once have covered it.

This is a wedge tomb, a type of megalithic burial monument built during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, broadly between 2500 and 2000 BC. The name comes from their characteristic shape: wider and taller at the entrance end, tapering toward the back. This example measures 3.75 metres in length, opening to the west-southwest in the manner typical of the type. At its western entrance the chamber is 1.9 metres wide; by the time it reaches the closed eastern end, that width has narrowed to just 0.9 metres. The north and south sides are each formed from a single slab, both decreasing in height from west to east, and the eastern end is sealed by an inset backstone. A single roofstone survives over the eastern portion of the chamber. Wedge tombs are the most numerous of Ireland's megalithic tomb types, and West Cork has a notable concentration of them, suggesting this part of the country was relatively well settled by the communities that built them.