Tillage fields press right up to its base, and the surrounding farmland gives little away. But that slight, saucer-like depression near the centre of its flattened top is the tell. This is a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument in which a low circular mound was originally encircled by a fosse, the term for a surrounding ditch, which in this case has long since silted and smoothed away. The mound itself is subcircular in plan, roughly 11.5 metres across and 1.5 metres high, modest dimensions that make it easy to underestimate.

The site sits on the northern slope of the ridge, just south of a townland boundary, about 17 metres east of a neighbouring barrow recorded separately in the national monument register. That proximity is significant. Researcher Keeling identified this area in 1983 as part of an extensive barrow cemetery, meaning the landscape here once held a considerable concentration of prehistoric funerary monuments, of which this is one surviving example. The fosse that formerly enclosed the mound was noted by Hartnett in 1957, by which point the earthwork had presumably already lost much of its original definition. The combination of ridge-top positioning and clustering with other barrows is typical of Bronze Age burial practice in Ireland, where communities often returned to the same elevated ground over generations to inter their dead.

The mound lies in Knockbrack townland and is accessible for viewing from the field edge, though the surrounding tillage means there is no formal path to it and the ground can be soft depending on the season. The flat top and central depression are best appreciated by walking the perimeter and looking inward rather than climbing onto the mound itself. The companion barrow to the west is also recorded and worth locating on the map beforehand, as the two together give a better sense of the wider cemetery landscape that once occupied this ridge.