What was once, in all probability, a ring barrow, a low circular burial mound typically defined by a central mound or pit and a surrounding ditch and outer bank used during the Bronze Age, has been reduced over centuries of farming and land improvement to a shallow depression in the ground, measuring roughly four metres north to south and just under four metres east to west. Walk over it without knowing it is there and you almost certainly would.

The site came to attention not through excavation or fieldwork on the ground, but through aerial photography, specifically the Bruff Survey, where it was catalogued as Map 15, no 26.2, reference 4/3728. Analysts identified what appeared to be a possible ring barrow sitting at the centre of a wider enclosure, recorded separately under the reference LI015-067. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in October 2013. What the aerial photograph revealed as a cropmark or soil variation has since been confirmed on the ground as that slight sub-circular depression, the last visible trace of what may have been a prehistoric funerary monument. The landscape around it is flat and open, reclaimed pasture with clear sightlines in every direction, which is itself worth noting; elevated or open ground with wide views was often deliberately chosen for such monuments in prehistory.

Because the feature is so slight, visiting without prior preparation is likely to result in frustration. The Irish Sites and Monuments Record entry gives the clearest coordinates for locating the general area, and the surrounding pasture is private farmland, so permission from the landowner would be needed before approaching closely. There is no marker, no signage, and nothing to distinguish the depression from ordinary ground variation at a glance. The best conditions for picking out such subtle earthworks are low winter light or a dry summer following a wet spring, when differential grass growth can reveal buried features more clearly. What is here is not dramatic, but that is rather the point; it is the faint outline of something ancient that survived, just barely, the long work of turning wild ground into productive land.