Most ancient mounds in Ireland are roughly circular, the product of prehistoric burial practices or the accumulated debris of long occupation. This one is rectangular, measuring roughly eight metres east to west and nearly seven metres north to south, rising just over a metre above the surrounding ground. That rectilinear form, combined with traces of stone facing still visible along its eastern side, suggests something deliberately constructed rather than naturally accumulated.

What exactly it was built for remains an open question. The stone facing hints at a more structured interior or revetment, a technique used in various periods to retain an earthen core and give a monument its shape and stability. The mound is heavily overgrown now, which makes direct examination of the fabric difficult, and the vegetation has almost certainly obscured further details of its construction. Without excavation, its date and function are hard to pin down, though the combination of a formal shape and dressed stonework points to deliberate, likely medieval or early medieval, activity in this part of west Cork.