This is a wedge tomb, a type of megalithic structure built during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, characterised by a gallery that narrows and lowers toward one end, typically oriented to face the setting sun in the west. At Caherfadda, the tomb is so diminished that what survives is barely recognisable as such without some prior knowledge of what you are looking at.

The two standing stones that constitute the core of the structure sit roughly two metres apart on flat, low-lying karst, the bare or thinly soiled limestone pavement that defines so much of the Clare landscape. The northern stone, aligned northeast to southwest, reaches just over a metre in height; the southern stone has tilted almost completely onto its side. Scattered nearby are three further stones that may once have belonged to the tomb: two smaller slabs that could represent a side wall which toppled to the southeast, and a larger stone measuring two metres by 1.2 metres that may originally have served as a roofing lintel. The conditional language matters here; the structure is too disturbed for anything firmer than careful inference. The tomb sits at the junction of two field walls and is surrounded by dense vegetation to the east, itself embedded within a much larger multiperiod field system that speaks to centuries, possibly millennia, of continuous human activity in this corner of the Burren.