A ditch barrow is, in basic terms, a low circular burial mound defined not by raised earthworks but by a surrounding fosse, a shallow ditch cut into the ground, with a flat or gently mounded interior. At Mooresfort, even that modest definition is being tested by time and livestock.

The monument was identified during a field survey carried out by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly on 26 November 2008. What they recorded is small and subtle: a roughly circular area measuring approximately 6.2 metres north to south and 6.0 metres east to west, enclosed by a fosse just 2.4 metres wide and only 0.15 metres deep at its most discernible. The interior is generally level, falling away gently toward the ditch around its edge. On the south-western and north-western sides, the fosse has eroded further still, the result of cattle poaching the ground over who knows how many seasons. The barrow sits on a short, south-east-facing slope that looks out over an area of old drainage channels, a landscape that has clearly been managed and reworked across generations. A farm trackway runs roughly 13 metres to the north, and a second ditch barrow of the same type lies just 21 metres to the south-east, suggesting this was once, in the distant past, a place of some deliberate significance rather than an isolated marker in an otherwise unremarkable field.