It is one of four such monuments recorded on the course at Palmerstown, an unusual concentration that suggests this low ridge was a significant place long before anyone thought to cut the grass short and sink a flag into it.

The mound is classified in Office of Public Works records as a bowl-barrow, a type of Bronze Age funerary monument characterised by a rounded earthen mound, though the archaeologist Rynne, writing in 1991, described it instead as a ring-barrow. The distinction matters in a technical sense: a ring-barrow, unlike a simple bowl-barrow, typically features not just a central mound but a surrounding fosse and an external bank encircling the whole. At roughly nine and a half metres in diameter for the mound itself, and around fifteen metres across when the outer elements are included, this one fits that more complex description. The fosse is the shallow ditch scooped around the mound, and the low bank beyond it would originally have defined the boundary of the monument. That outer bank survives best on the south-eastern to south-western arc and again from the north-west round to the north-north-east, though it is worn and subtle enough to require some attention to spot.