The monument is not obvious in the field. It reveals itself instead from above, as a cropmark, a subtle variation in vegetation colour or growth caused by the buried ditch beneath, which becomes readable on aerial photography and satellite imagery in a way it simply cannot be at ground level. A ditch-barrow is a prehistoric burial monument defined by a circular enclosing ditch, sometimes with an internal mound, and the form is broadly associated with funerary activity from the Bronze Age onward, though individual sites vary.

The site was recorded by Caimin O'Brien on the basis of details supplied by Faith Bailey, and uploaded to the national record in November 2022. The cropmark of the circular ditch-enclosed area was identified on Ordnance Survey Ireland orthophotos and on a Google Earth image captured on 16 January 2022. The land sits close to the Tipperary county boundary, which runs immediately to the east and south, where a small stream marks the line between the two counties running roughly east to west. That boundary proximity is not merely administrative detail; it often reflects older patterns of marginal or contested land, and this particular ground is described as poorly drained, which may have affected how the surrounding area was historically used and why earthworks here survived relatively undisturbed. Further monuments cluster nearby: another ditch-barrow lies approximately 160 metres to the east-northeast just across the county boundary into Tipperary, an earthwork sits about 60 metres to the northeast, and aerial imagery suggests two additional possible ditch-barrows to the west.

Because the monument survives as a cropmark rather than as an upstanding earthwork, there is little to observe directly from the field boundary. Cropmarks of this kind tend to show most clearly in dry summer conditions, when differences in soil moisture above buried features affect plant growth, or alternatively in winter on bare or short-sward ground. The January 2022 image that helped confirm this site illustrates the latter. Visitors interested in the broader cluster of monuments in the area would do well to cross-reference the national Sites and Monuments Record entries and to examine aerial imagery before visiting, as the field context changes considerably with the seasons and the site itself offers no upstanding features to orientate by.