It is the kind of monument that reveals itself reluctantly, surfacing as a faint circular cropmark, roughly six metres across, when dryness or crop stress draws the outline of an ancient ditch up through the soil and into the visible spectrum. On some imagery it appears; on others it does not. A Digital Globe orthoimage from 2011 to 2013 shows nothing, and a Google Earth image from September 2020 shows nothing either. It is, in practical terms, a place that exists in the archaeological record without ever having been formally mapped in the traditional sense.

The site was first identified during the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986, catalogued as Bruff 291.04, AP 4/3609, when a small circular cropmark was spotted from above. A ditch barrow is a prehistoric funerary monument, typically a low earthen mound surrounded by a circular ditch, the ditch being the defining feature rather than any surviving upstanding structure. This particular example is one of five contiguous barrows arranged roughly northwest to southeast along the top of a long ridge in the area, the group registered together under the references LI032-289 through to LI032-293. The five monuments sit between seven and twenty-four metres apart from one another, forming a loose funerary alignment that follows the ridgeline. This barrow is the second most southerly of the group, positioned on a gentle slope facing west-southwest, about seventy-two metres east of the townland boundary with Portboy, which also corresponds to a watercourse that eventually drains into the Ballynamona River some 740 metres to the southeast.

The site sits in improved agricultural pasture, meaning the land has been modified for farming and there is no surface feature to stand beside or photograph. A visitor would pass over it without knowing. The best approach is to consult the OSi orthoimage from the 2005 to 2012 survey window, where the cropmark is faintly legible, and cross-reference this against the aerial survey image from 1986. The broader ridge, with its sequence of five barrows, is the real context here; no single monument reads well in isolation, but as a group they suggest a deliberate and sustained use of this elevated ground during the prehistoric period. The work of recording the site was carried out by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly, with details uploaded to the national monuments record in November 2020.