The monument sits 650 metres southwest of a court tomb and about a kilometre southeast of the extensive beach that stretches eastward from Ballyness Bay, with Muckish Mountain dominating the southern horizon. Though greatly ruined, the surviving stones offer enough clues to understand this ancient burial site’s original form.

Only the essential elements of the tomb remain in place: two portal stones aligned east to west, a doorstone between them, and a displaced roofstone that now leans against the structure. The northern portal stone tilts slightly inward, its height decreasing from 1.2 metres at the eastern end to 0.9 metres at the west, whilst the southern portal stone stands slightly lower and narrows towards its top. Between them, the doorstone reaches only about half their height at 0.6 metres. The dislodged roofstone, measuring 1.85 by 1.7 metres, bears numerous small natural depressions across its surface. These surviving elements stand on a grass-grown mound measuring roughly 4.8 metres north to south and 3.6 metres east to west. The arrangement of the stones indicates the burial chamber originally lay to the west, with the tomb facing uphill towards the east.

Historical records from the Ordnance Survey dating to before 1850 describe the monument in much the same state as it appears today, suggesting it has remained relatively undisturbed for at least two centuries. Archaeological testing conducted in April 2002 in the surrounding area, undertaken ahead of a proposed sand and gravel pit, found no additional features of archaeological significance; just the typical layers of topsoil, cobbles, boulder clay and iron pan that characterise this part of Donegal’s landscape.