This one does neither. A possible prehistoric barrow, a burial mound of the kind raised across Ireland during the Bronze Age and earlier, sits in wet pasture in the townland of Ballyfauskeen in County Limerick, and leaves almost no trace on the surface at all. It is the kind of site that asks you to take archaeology's word for it, a presence that registers in data rather than in stone.

The site lies roughly 145 metres west of the River Aherlow, which forms the boundary between Ballyfauskeen and the neighbouring townland of Baurnagurrahy. It never appeared on Ordnance Survey Ireland's historic mapping, which means it escaped the attention of the surveyors who worked their way across the Irish landscape during the nineteenth century, recording ringforts, mottes, and other earthworks with reasonable diligence. What eventually brought this site to notice was an altogether more industrial exercise: aerial photography carried out on 3 November 1984 for the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West to Limerick gas pipeline. The photographs, taken at a scale of 1 to 5000, captured cropmarks or soil anomalies consistent with a buried barrow. A second possible barrow, recorded separately in the national monuments database, lies just 18 metres to the south, suggesting the area may once have held a small funerary landscape. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded to the Sites and Monuments Record in November 2021.

There is nothing for a visitor to see in the conventional sense. Satellite imagery confirms no upstanding remains survive, and the wet, low-lying pasture is private agricultural land. The value of this site is less about a physical experience and more about what it illustrates: that the Irish archaeological record continues to be shaped by unexpected sources, whether wartime aerial surveys, pipeline corridors, or drainage schemes, each one cutting across the landscape and incidentally illuminating what lies beneath it. If you are in the area and curious, the River Aherlow nearby offers public access along parts of its banks, and the broader Glen of Aherlow gives a sense of the landscape within which these buried traces once had meaning.