The site offers sweeping views eastward across the lough, though Knockalla Mountain blocks the horizon to the north and west just two kilometres away. Today, the monument consists of several standing stones, or orthostats, arranged roughly east-northeast to west-southwest, along with displaced slabs and a low, grassy mound measuring about 7 metres by 5.2 metres. The surviving upright stones vary in height from 0.35 to 0.8 metres, whilst two substantial displaced slabs, one measuring 2.1 by 1.9 metres, lie at the southern end of the structure.

Archaeological surveys suggest these sparse remains might represent two sides of a burial chamber or gallery, possibly with an outer wall stone, though the monument’s ruined state makes definitive classification impossible. The site’s deterioration isn’t recent; when the Ordnance Survey Memoirs documented it in 1834, the tomb was already described as being “in ruins” and was actively being dismantled for road-building materials. Over the years, the location has also served as a convenient dumping ground for field stones cleared from the surrounding arable land, further obscuring the original structure.

Despite its degraded condition, this monument forms part of Ireland’s rich megalithic heritage, documented extensively by archaeologist Eamon Cody in his comprehensive Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. The tomb has attracted scholarly attention since at least the late 19th century, with various antiquarians and archaeologists attempting to make sense of its jumbled stones. Whilst we may never fully understand its original form or purpose, these ancient stones continue to mark a spot chosen by our ancestors thousands of years ago, their reasons for selecting this particular hillside overlooking Lough Swilly now lost to time.