On the edge of recently cleared upland pasture close to Mountseskin in the Dublin hills, a low circular platform of earth and stone sits by the roadside in Crooksling, easy to walk past and easier still to dismiss. Yet that modest rise, roughly sixteen metres across and just forty centimetres at its highest point, is a barrow, one of the prehistoric funerary mounds that once punctuated the Irish landscape in considerable numbers and now survive in varying states of visibility.

A barrow, in this context, is a burial mound raised during the Bronze Age or earlier, typically covering the remains of one or more individuals along with grave goods. Many were constructed as markers on the landscape, visible to communities moving through the hills, though over millennia cultivation, grazing, and land clearance have flattened or removed a great number of them. The Crooksling example is recorded in Healy's 1975 survey and was noted at that time as sitting within upland pasture that had recently been cleared, which likely accounts for its relatively accessible and legible condition. The site details were later compiled by archaeologists Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy as part of an ongoing effort to catalogue such monuments across the region.

The site sits close to the roadside near Mountseskin, which makes it easier to locate than many comparable monuments in the Dublin uplands, though there is nothing to announce its presence dramatically. Visitors approaching from the road should look for the low circular platform rather than any obvious mound or marker. The cleared pasture setting means sight lines are reasonably open, and the slight elevation of the feature becomes more apparent once you are standing close to it and can observe the gradual fall of the surrounding ground. A dry day is advisable simply for comfort underfoot, given the upland character of the terrain. The monument is unenclosed and visible from the roadside, though as always with archaeological sites, care should be taken not to disturb the ground surface.