Fifteen low orthostats, upright stones of varying shapes, enclose a slightly raised circular area about 17 metres across, which may be the eroded remains of an older mound. There is a conspicuous gap on the south-south-west side, and researchers O'Kelly and O'Kelly suggested in 1978 that this was not original, but caused by the deliberate removal of two stones at some point after the circle was built. A recumbent outlier stone that once lay a few yards to the east, and which nineteenth-century observers considered an altar, is gone entirely.

The area around the circle is so dense with prehistoric activity that it reads almost like a landscape that was never quite abandoned. Within a few hundred metres sit a large embanked stone circle to the south, a levelled stone circle immediately to the south-south-west, two standing stones to the north-north-west, and a trapezoidal arrangement of stones to the west that may be the remnant of a court tomb, a Neolithic monument type typically featuring a roofless forecourt opening onto a burial chamber. There is also a feature called Cladh na Leac, a trackway running north-west to south-east, 180 metres to the east. The stone now missing from the eastern side was described in 1826 by Fitzgerald and McGregor as a large flat stone roughly 2.2 metres long and 1.8 metres high, widely believed locally to have been a sacrificial altar. By 1840, Ordnance Survey correspondents noted the circle's stones as standing between 1.2 and 1.5 metres high, several with squared flat tops, and described it as a perfect circle, which suggests the gap had not yet attracted much commentary or had not yet fully opened.

The site is National Monument No. 247 and lies within the wider Lough Gur complex in County Limerick, a landscape with unusually good public access to prehistoric remains. Aerial photographs from 1966 recorded a low central mound still visible within the circle along with traces of an enclosing bank, features worth looking for underfoot even if they are subtle now. The orthostats are low and the ground is grassy, so the circle can be easy to underestimate at first glance; the gap at the south-south-west and the slight interior rise reward a slower, closer look. A 3D model of the monument is available online at skfb.ly/osXDA for those who want to study the layout before or after a visit.