It rises to about 1.25 metres, roughly rectangular in section, and represents what survives of a monument that, at its widest, measured around three metres across. Five-stone circles are a distinct regional tradition found mainly in Cork and Kerry, typically comprising a ring of four uprights flanked by a pair of portal stones and capped by a low recumbent, and the Dromgarriff example, though now reduced, fits that general pattern.

By the nineteenth century the circle was already in serious decline, but someone thought it worth recording. A sketch and accompanying note from that period describe three stones still standing and two lying flat, which at least confirms that the monument retained most of its original components into relatively recent times. More striking is the brief mention attached to the record: an earthen vessel, found here by diggers, broken. The note offers no further detail, no dimensions, no date of discovery, no indication of whether the vessel was prehistoric or later in date. It exists now only as that single line, a fragment of a find report that was never properly followed up, attached to a site that has since lost four of its five stones.