The circle is complete, which is far from guaranteed for monuments of this type, and its internal measurement along the main axis runs to just 2.3 metres. That is roughly the span of two adults lying head to toe. These are not towering megaliths; the stones range from half a metre to just over a metre in height. What makes the monument quietly compelling is precisely that modesty, combined with its intactness.

Five-stone circles are a distinctive tradition in Cork and Kerry, consisting of four orthostats arranged in a ring with a fifth, recumbent stone placed at the entrance, typically to the south or south-west. The entrance stone here leans markedly to the east, the kind of lean that accumulates over millennia in soft, waterlogged ground. The main axis of the circle is aligned ENE-WSW, a recurring orientation in monuments of this class that archaeologists have associated with astronomical events, particularly the movements of the sun and moon along the horizon. Seán Ó Nualláin, whose 1984 survey catalogued Cork's five-stone circles systematically, recorded this example as number 57 in his sequence, placing it within a wider landscape of similar monuments scattered across the uplands and river basins of Mid Cork.