This is a five-stone circle, a type found almost exclusively in the Cork and Kerry region of south-west Ireland, and this particular example is one of the more quietly complete survivors. Its interior has filled over time with field clearance stones, the accumulated debris of generations of farming, yet the five orthostats, the upright slabs that form the monument itself, remain in place.

The circle sits about thirty metres east of the Sullane River, wedged between ridges of outcropping rock. The five uprights range from around 0.9 to 1.1 metres in length and stand between 0.8 and 1 metre high, with varying thickness. What distinguishes five-stone circles from larger Bronze Age examples is their characteristic entrance arrangement: two portal stones set parallel to one another and positioned end-on to the circumference, framing an axial alignment. Here, that main axis runs roughly east-northeast to west-southwest, a consistent feature across this class of monument and one that has long been associated with solar or lunar alignments, though the precise ritual purpose remains a matter of interpretation. The internal measurement along the axis is just 2.1 metres, which gives a sense of how intimate, and how deliberate, the geometry is.

The site sits in working farmland, and the presence of clearance stones piled inside the circle is a reminder that these monuments have coexisted with agricultural activity for millennia. The orthostats themselves have not been displaced, which makes this an unusually intact example of a monument type that was already small and precise to begin with.