What makes this particular wedge tomb quietly remarkable is not just its setting, at the head of the Canrooska River valley with views south over Glengarriff Harbour and Bantry Bay, but the fact that it is not alone. A second wedge tomb of the same type lies just twenty metres to the south, and a standing stone stands roughly two hundred metres to the north-west, suggesting this stretch of mountain was once a deliberate and considered ceremonial landscape.

Wedge tombs are the most numerous type of megalithic tomb in Ireland, built roughly between 2500 and 2000 BC, and they take their name from a characteristic taper: wider and higher at the western entrance end, narrowing toward a closed eastern end. This example fits the type precisely. The gallery, aligned east-north-east to west-south-west, measures around 3.4 metres in length and widens from approximately 0.85 metres at the eastern backstone end to 1.35 metres at the west. Seven orthostats, the upright stones forming the side walls, are still visible, four along the north side and three along the south. The western end is partially closed by a transversely set slab, a septal stone, leaving only a half-metre entrance gap. Three roofstones still cover the gallery, though they have shifted from their original positions; the largest, on the western end, measures 2.6 by 1.6 metres. A single outer-wall stone is exposed along the northern side, hinting at the more elaborate kerbed structure that once enclosed the whole monument before the bog crept in around it.