It is broadly subcircular in shape, roughly ten metres across and rising to between 0.9 and 1.5 metres in height, and it sits where exposed limestone pavement gives way to rough grazing, the kind of high, open ground that tends to belong more to the wind than to any particular century.

The cairn was listed as a cemetery cairn in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996, drawing on a map annotation made by Tom Coffey in 1994. A communication from P. Walsh in June of that same year added a more specific description, referring to it as a cairn with an exposed slab of a chamber or cist. A cist, in this context, is a small stone-lined grave or burial box, often associated with prehistoric funerary practice. The suggestion of one here gave the site a sharper identity, the possibility of an enclosed burial at its core. When an inspection was carried out in 1999, however, no such feature was visible. Whether the slab had become obscured beneath accumulated vegetation, or whether the original description was overstated, the record does not say. The cairn remains well-preserved in its general form, but whatever may lie at its centre has not been formally confirmed.