The ring barrow at Mooresfort is not much to look at from the ground; it measures roughly six metres north to south and just over five metres east to west, and what remains above the surface amounts to little more than faint undulations in the grass. Yet aerial photography revealed the telltale circular cropmark of a ring-ditch, the kind of trace that generations of farmers, drainage engineers, and ploughmen managed to reduce almost to nothing without quite erasing it altogether.

A ring barrow is a type of burial monument typical of the Bronze Age, consisting of a low central mound surrounded by a circular ditch and, often, an outer bank. Here, a fosse, essentially a shallow trench, nearly two metres wide and only about ten centimetres deep, defines the circular area. Traces of the accompanying bank survive in places, particularly along the north and north-west arc, where the ground still rises by a matter of centimetres both inside and outside the feature. The interior sits fractionally lower than the surrounding pasture, which is itself part of what gives the monument away on aerial photographs as a ring-ditch rather than simple earthwork. Unusually, the barrow sits directly alongside a second, conjoined ditch barrow to its west-south-west, the two monuments sharing a boundary and likely forming part of a small funerary complex that once served a prehistoric community in this part of Tipperary. Such paired or grouped barrows are not uncommon in the Irish landscape, but they are rarely so close as to share a ditch.