What makes this particular wedge tomb worth pausing over is the cup marks noted on its capstone, shallow circular depressions ground into the surface of the stone, a form of prehistoric rock art whose precise meaning has never been satisfactorily explained. They appear at megalithic sites across Ireland and Britain, and their presence here connects this corner of mid Cork to a much wider, still only partially understood tradition of marking stone in the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Wedge tombs are the most numerous class of megalithic tomb in Ireland, typically consisting of a roofed stone gallery that narrows from a wider western or south-western entrance towards a closed eastern end. This one follows that pattern closely. The gallery runs roughly east-north-east to west-south-west and measures 4.6 metres in length, widening to 1.4 metres at the western end before tapering inward. Three sidestones line the northern wall, five the southern, and a backstone sits just outside the gallery walls at the eastern end. Closely set outer walling runs along both the north and south sides, and two overlapping roofstones still partially cover the interior, which has accumulated field clearance material over the centuries. A low earthen mound surrounds the whole structure. Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin documented the tomb in their 1982 survey of megalithic monuments across Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, and Tipperary. A second wedge tomb stands approximately 450 metres to the west-south-west, suggesting this part of the Laney valley held some significance for the farming communities who built these monuments, probably in the later Neolithic or early Bronze Age.