The site is a ditch barrow, a type of funerary enclosure in which a circular fosse, or ditch, defines the burial area rather than a raised mound. What makes this particular example quietly odd is just how thoroughly the landscape has conspired against it: cattle have poached the ground, drainage works have cut across it, and an old field boundary has left its own scar nearby. The monument endures, but only just.

The site was identified through aerial photography, the photographs revealing a ring-ditch pattern that ground-level observation alone would likely miss. The circular area measures roughly 4.4 metres north to south and 4.9 metres east to west, defined by a fosse approximately two metres wide and now almost imperceptibly shallow, at around five centimetres deep. The ditch is still traceable along its north-western to north-eastern arc, though a modern field drain running roughly east to west has cut through the south-south-eastern sector, further obscuring what was already a subtle feature. A companion monument, a ring-barrow, sits approximately 4.5 metres to the west-north-west, suggesting that this corner of Lissobihane once held some significance in the burial landscape of prehistoric Tipperary, even if nothing visible above ground now hints at that.