Two of its roof stones have slipped from their original positions and now lie tilted inside the chamber itself, giving the interior a collapsed, almost provisional quality. There is no visible mound around it, which means the tomb presents itself with an unusual nakedness, its structural bones exposed rather than softened by earthwork.

This is a wedge tomb, a type of megalithic burial monument built predominantly in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, characterised by a chamber that is wider and taller at one end and tapers toward the other, typically oriented to face west or south-west. The Bofickil example follows that pattern closely. The chamber measures 2.5 metres in length, widening from 1.3 metres at the eastern end to 1.6 metres at the western opening. Each of the long sides is formed from a single upright slab, and a backstone is set into the eastern end. The alignment toward Coulagh Bay is not incidental; many wedge tombs across Ireland share this westward orientation, though whether that reflects practical, ritual, or astronomical concerns remains a matter of scholarly discussion. The tomb was documented by Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin in their systematic survey of megalithic tombs across Munster, published in 1982, which remains a foundational reference for monuments of this type in Counties Cork and Kerry.