That assimilation is part of what makes it unusual: the south side of the tomb now forms a section of a stone field wall, and what survives as a recognisable monument is only a partial version of what was once a carefully constructed megalithic gallery.

Wedge tombs are the most numerous megalithic tomb type in Ireland, built roughly between 2500 and 2000 BC, typically with a gallery that narrows and lowers from the entrance end towards the back. This example is aligned northeast to southwest, with the open end facing northeast. The gallery is modest, around two metres long and 0.65 metres wide at its entrance. Three stones on the south side survive, rising in height as they move westward, while only the easternmost stone of the north side remains. There is no backstone. The roofstone, measuring 2.2 metres by at least one metre and 0.2 metres thick, still rests on the two opposing sidestones at the eastern end of the gallery, though it slopes downward toward the entrance and is partially buried under field-clearance material, the accumulated stone debris of generations of farmers tidying their land. The western end has collapsed entirely and is obscured beneath the roofstone and that same clearance material. Beneath all of this, a layer of peat was found on top of the roofstone, suggesting the monument had already collapsed in antiquity, long before anyone began stacking field stones against it.

The tomb sits in rough pasture between two knolls of outcropping rock, with boulders breaking the surface around it. From this elevated ground there are open views southward and southwestward across undulating pasture toward the mouth of Roaringwater Bay, the wide coastal inlet between the Mizen and Sheep's Head peninsulas in west Cork. That the people who built the tomb chose this particular spot, with its long southern prospect toward the sea, seems unlikely to be coincidental.