The one at Cloncracken in County Tipperary sits at the summit of a low east-west ridge among rolling pasture, which is exactly where these monuments tend to appear, chosen for their modest elevation above the surrounding ground. What makes this particular example quietly strange is how thoroughly the modern world has absorbed it. A post-and-wire fence with a conifer hedgerow cuts through the south-east sector of the monument, forming the boundary of an adjacent bungalow's front garden. The ancient and the domestic simply share the ground.

The barrow did not appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, though this may reflect the limits of the survey rather than the monument's absence. By the 1954 edition it was recorded as a small enclosure with a central mound. Since then it has been considerably reduced. What survives is a low circular platform, roughly 16 metres across, with only faint traces of the original bank surviving at the south-west and north-east, where it stands no more than 0.3 to 0.6 metres above the exterior ground level. The central mound, which would once have been the most visually prominent feature, has been entirely levelled. A gap of about two metres in the bank on the western side may represent the remains of an original entrance, though it could equally be the result of later disturbance. Pieces of limestone protrude through the surface near the southern edge, where the underlying geology presses through the thin cover of soil.