It would be easy to walk across it without noticing anything at all. The interior of this ditch barrow sits only about eight centimetres below the surrounding ground level, and the fosse, the encircling ditch that defines it, reaches a depth of less than twenty centimetres at its most pronounced. What gives it away, at least to the trained eye, is its shape: a near-perfect circle, roughly 3.2 metres north to south and 3.5 metres east to west, with a gap in the ditch at the north-northwest that would once have served as an entrance.

A barrow is, in its simplest form, a burial monument, and a ditch barrow or ring-ditch is the type defined primarily by its encircling fosse rather than by any significant upstanding mound. The interior here has been so worn down by time and agriculture that the earthwork survives only as the faintest of impressions. The monument was identified not by fieldwork alone but through an aerial photograph, which revealed the ring-ditch as a cropmark or soilmark invisible from the ground. It sits in a landscape shaped by former water activity, the gently undulating ground around it a legacy of old watercourses that have long since shifted or dried. Two related ring-barrows lie close by, one just over a metre to the northwest and another roughly two metres to the west, suggesting this corner of Tipperary once held a small cluster of funerary monuments, perhaps marking a place that held significance across generations.