The site does not appear on any Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps, and a visitor standing in the field today would find nothing obvious to look at. Its existence is known from a single aerial photograph, taken on 3 November 1984, and from that image alone it was identified as a barrow, a term for a prehistoric earthen or stone burial mound, usually raised over one or more interments and often forming part of a wider funerary landscape.

The photograph in question was taken by Bord Gáis Éireann during pipeline survey work, catalogued as BGE 2575, Site No. 263. From the air, the crop or soil marks characteristic of buried features can sometimes show up in ways entirely invisible at ground level, and this is how the site came to be recorded at all. What makes the discovery particularly striking is its context: this is not an isolated find but one of up to 36 possible barrows identified across a relatively compact area of approximately 250 metres north to south and 450 metres east to west. The cluster straddles the townland boundary between Mitchelstowndown West and Mitchelstowndown North, with this particular monument sitting roughly 120 metres south of that boundary line. The full record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded to the national monument database in September 2021.

Because no surface remains are visible on Google Earth orthoimages, a visit to the precise location offers little in the way of physical evidence. The land is reclaimed pasture, and the monument, if it survives intact below the surface, is entirely concealed. What is worth appreciating, if you do travel out to the broader area, is the sheer density of what the aerial record suggests lies underfoot. This part of south County Limerick apparently conceals an unusually concentrated prehistoric burial landscape, most of it undetected until a gas company flew over with a camera forty years ago.