It appears on no Ordnance Survey historic maps, and its presence only came to light when an aerial photographic survey over Bruff in 1986 caught a faint circular cropmark pressed into the rough pasture below. A cropmark forms when buried structures affect the growth of grass or crops above them, producing colour or texture differences that are only legible from altitude. Without that flight, the ring barrow, a type of low circular funerary monument typically dating to the Bronze Age, would likely have remained unrecorded entirely.

The site sits on a northwest-facing slope in wet, rough grazing land, roughly 100 metres northeast of the townland boundary with Knocknacrohy, and it is not alone. It belongs to a complex of five barrows in the immediate area, catalogued under the reference numbers LI024-041, 243, 246, 342, and 341. When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland formally surveyed the monument in 2008, what they found was modest in scale but legible in structure. The circular area measures approximately 4.2 metres north to south and 4 metres east to west. It is defined by a low scarp, a fosse (a shallow surrounding ditch), and an outer bank, the whole thing standing only a few centimetres proud of the surrounding ground in places. The outer bank is cut across from the north-northeast by a later linear earthen bank running some 28 metres on a northwest to southeast alignment, suggesting subsequent agricultural or land-boundary activity has left its mark on the monument. At the southwest, a waterlogged hollow choked with rushes appears to contain a spring that drains westward, adding a further layer of ambiguity to an already complex ground surface.

The monument is on private farmland in rough, poorly drained pasture, so any visit would require landowner permission and a tolerance for wet ground. Its presence is most clearly read not from standing beside it but from above; the subcircular cropmark has been visible on aerial and satellite imagery across multiple surveys, including Ordnance Survey orthoimages from 2005 to 2012 and a Google Earth image from November 2018. On the ground, the scarp and fosse are subtle enough that the surrounding rushes and uneven grazing land can easily obscure them, and the more dramatic visual feature may well be the 28-metre earthen bank that cuts across the northern edge, a reminder that later land use rarely respected the boundaries of what came before.