Nine metres across, defined by a gently sloping earthen edge that drops only about ten centimetres, it has the quiet geometry of something deliberate. At its centre, a slightly raised circular area roughly three metres in diameter hints at what this feature once was: a barrow, one of the prehistoric burial mounds found across Ireland, typically dating from the Bronze Age, in which the dead were interred beneath or within a raised earthen or stone structure.

This particular example was not identified by ground survey alone. It came to light through aerial photography, specifically the Bruff Survey, which captured the subtle cropmarks and earthwork shadows that ground-level inspection can miss entirely. That kind of discovery is common with low-profile monuments like this one; centuries of ploughing, grazing, and weathering can reduce a once-prominent mound to little more than a faint saucer in the soil. What survives here is a scarped edge about two metres wide encircling that slightly hollow interior, which remains level and clear of overgrowth. About fifty metres to the north-north-west lies a related feature, a ditch-barrow, a type of monument defined by a surrounding ditch rather than a built-up mound, suggesting this small corner of Tipperary was once a place of some ceremonial or funerary significance.