It is not large, roughly sixteen metres across at its widest and less than a metre high, and it has none of the surrounding banks or ditches that might help identify what it once was. That absence is part of what makes it quietly puzzling.

The mound is roughly circular and dome-shaped, measuring approximately eleven metres on its northeast-to-southwest axis and sixteen metres northwest-to-southeast, rising to around 0.75 metres at its highest point. The lack of any accompanying banks or fosses, the enclosing earthworks that typically frame ringforts or other enclosed settlement sites, means its original purpose remains open. It may be a burial mound, a natural feature shaped by centuries of cultivation, or something else entirely. What can be said is that it does not stand alone in the landscape: an enclosure of some kind lies roughly 600 metres to the northeast, which raises the possibility, though no more than that, of a broader pattern of past activity in this part of County Tipperary.