What makes the example at Ballingayrour unusual is not what it looks like now, but the fact that it effectively cannot be seen at all. No surface trace appears on Ordnance Survey orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012, and a Google Earth image captured in September 2020 tells the same story: flat ground, trees, nothing obviously funerary about it. The monument exists, for most practical purposes, only as a mark on an aerial photograph.

That photograph was taken during a survey of the Bruff area in 1986, catalogued as Bruff 20, reference AP 5/2064. Aerial survey has long been one of the more reliable methods for finding low or ploughed-out earthworks that leave no impression on the modern surface, and this site appears to be a good example of why. The barrow was never recorded on historic Ordnance Survey maps, suggesting it had already lost most of its visible profile before the systematic mapping of the Irish landscape in the nineteenth century. An enclosure of separate classification sits roughly 200 metres to the west, hinting that this corner of County Limerick may have seen more organised prehistoric or early historic activity than the current landscape would suggest. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in May 2021.

The site sits within a modern coniferous forestry plantation, in a clearing within that plantation. Conifer plantations in Ireland are often dense and poorly signed, and clearings within them can be difficult to navigate without good mapping. Anyone hoping to visit would need current large-scale mapping and should be aware that the ground conditions underfoot in and around commercial forestry can be rough. There is nothing to observe once there in the conventional sense; the interest lies entirely in knowing what the aerial photographic record suggests lies beneath the surface, invisible to anyone standing above it.