It is modest in scale, roughly circular and flat-topped, measuring about fourteen metres across and rising no more than two metres at its highest point. That combination of deliberate placement on elevated ground and careful, rounded shaping marks it out as something made rather than merely accumulated, a fragment of an older landscape that has quietly outlasted whatever community once considered it significant.

Mounds of this kind are among the more ambiguous monuments in the Irish countryside. Depending on their age and context, they can represent burial cairns, platform mounds associated with early lordship, or the eroded remains of ringforts and enclosures. Without excavation it is difficult to assign this particular example a firm category or period. What the record does preserve is a note from a 1975 survey by Healy, which observed that the monument had already suffered erosion from cattle along its eastern side and across the top. The information was later compiled by Geraldine Stout and updated by Christine Baker for the national monuments record in 2014. Since the survey, the mound has been left under rough grass, with the surrounding field given over to arable use, a practical arrangement that at least keeps grazing animals away from its remaining extent.

The mound sits by the roadside, which makes it straightforward to locate without any demanding approach across open ground. The grass covering that extends down to the field boundaries to the south and west creates a soft buffer between the monument and the cultivated land around it. Visitors should be aware that the site is on private agricultural land, and access would require the landowner's permission. The erosion noted along the eastern face means that side of the mound shows less of its original profile than the rest; the western aspect, seen from the road, gives the clearest sense of how the feature would have read in the landscape when it was first raised on its hillock, visible from a distance and clearly intended to be noticed.