Roughly twelve metres across and no more than 1.3 metres at its highest point, it is not a dramatic structure, but the hollow at its centre is telling. Stones have been removed over the years, leaving a dip where the original mass once held its shape, a common fate for prehistoric monuments in agricultural landscapes where loose stone was always useful for walls, tracks, or field drainage.

Cairns of this kind are generally understood as funerary monuments, piles of stone heaped over burials during the Bronze Age or earlier, though their precise dates and uses vary considerably across Ireland. What makes the Dromskarragh More example mildly intriguing is its possible connection to a reference in Bowman's 1934 work, which cites a M. Cronin's description of a 'levelled tumulus' in the vicinity. A tumulus is simply a burial mound, and the phrase 'levelled' suggests the feature was already diminished even by the early twentieth century. Whether Cronin and Bowman were describing this same cairn, or another monument nearby that has since disappeared entirely, remains uncertain. Adding to the picture is a ring-barrow, a circular earthen enclosure also associated with burial and ritual, located approximately thirty metres to the east. The proximity of the two monuments suggests this corner of north Cork held some significance to the people who shaped it, even if the precise nature of that significance is now lost.