It is subcircular in shape, measuring roughly 13.8 metres east to west and 11 metres north to south, and at its highest point barely reaches 0.6 metres above the field surface. That modest elevation is, in fact, what makes it notable: on ground this level, even a slight rise reads clearly in the landscape, and this one sits within a large multiperiod field system, meaning the surrounding land has been shaped and reshaped by human activity across many centuries.

The mound sits within what archaeologists describe as a multiperiod field system, a landscape where boundaries, enclosures, and agricultural features from different eras have accumulated and sometimes overlapped, each generation of farmers leaving its own mark on the ground. The exact origins and function of the mound itself remain unspecified, but its form is consistent with a range of early features found across the Irish midlands and west. Somebody, at some point, has thrown field stones onto the centre of it, the kind of casual deposit that happens when a farmer clears a field and the mound is simply the most convenient place to dump the debris. About 172 metres to the east lies a cashel, a type of stone-walled enclosure typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, which hints at the broader archaeological density of this particular corner of Clare.