The sideboard is composed of several sections joined together, with loose carved parts attached to the up-stand.
The mirrors in the up-stand were intended to reflect light and to enhance the display of silverware.
The deep carving is neo-renaissance in style. The solid walnut gives way in places to walnut veneer on pine.
Believed to have been commissioned for the visit of the English Queen Victoria to Muckross in August 1861.
It bears the Herbert family crest of the Welsh Dragon or Wyvern.