The tomb is located 1.6 km (1 mile) north of Fenor.

Most of the surrounding countryside is visible, to the Comeragh Mountains.

[2] Matthewstown Passage Tomb dates to 2500–2000 BC.

the many "Diarmuid and Gráinne's Beds"[3] This is one of a group of small passage tombs in County Waterford with affinities to the tombs in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, hence the name "Scilly-Tramore group," suggesting that the builders were seafarers from Cornwall.

There are two rows of five orthostats protruding above the ground to about 1 metre (three-and-a-half feet).