Wedge tombs are the most numerous megalithic tomb type in Ireland, named for the way their stone-built chambers taper in both height and width from front to back. They were used as collective burial places, and their western or south-western orientations may have carried deliberate significance relating to the setting sun. Most are found in the west of Ireland, and Mayo has a reasonable share of them, often occupying upland or marginal ground that has changed little since the monuments were raised.

Beyond its classification and its location in Doobehy, the specific details of this particular tomb, its dimensions, condition, the number of surviving stones, any recorded finds or excavation history, remain unavailable at present. What can be said is that the townland sits within a part of Mayo where the underlying geology and the long history of low-intensity land use have allowed prehistoric monuments to survive in ways that more intensively farmed regions rarely permit. Wedge tombs in similar settings elsewhere in the county have been found to retain their basic structural form even after millennia of exposure, though many have lost capstones or had their chambers partially collapsed by shifting ground or stone robbing in later centuries.