That near-circularity is not unusual for Bronze Age stone circles in south-west Kerry, but what gives this one a particular character is what sits at its centre: a boulder-burial, a type of megalithic monument in which a large capstone is supported by smaller stones or set directly over a burial deposit. The combination of an enclosing ring and a central burial feature within the same monument is a recognised arrangement in the region, but encountering it in this form, just beyond the edge of a modern town, produces a mild double-take.

The circle was catalogued by Seán Ó Nualláin in 1984, in his systematic survey of Irish stone circles, and it conforms to what scholars call the axial or Cork-Kerry type. A defining feature of this tradition is the axial stone, placed opposite the entrance and typically the lowest stone in the ring. Here, that stone is a flat-topped, regular slab, noticeably different in character from most of its neighbours, which are rounded boulders. Two of the fifteen stones now lie prostrate. The enclosure measures approximately seventeen metres east to west and fifteen metres north to south, with individual stones ranging from around thirty centimetres to just over a metre in height. The contrast between the deliberately shaped axial stone and the rougher boulder forms around it suggests the builders were making considered choices about material and placement, not simply setting whatever came to hand.