Nine prehistoric barrows, the rounded earthen mounds that Bronze Age communities raised over their dead, once occupied a narrow corridor of land measuring roughly 240 metres from north to south and just 50 metres across. Today, satellite imagery from both Digital Globe and Google Earth shows no trace of them at the surface. The archaeology is still there, recorded and catalogued, but the land has quietly swallowed the evidence.

Six of the nine barrows were excavated in 1934 by Seán P. Ó Ríordáin, the Cork-born archaeologist who would go on to become one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Irish field archaeology. His findings were published in 1936, and the site designated as number IX in Field C was among those investigated. Barrow cemeteries of this kind, where multiple mounds are grouped together in a defined area rather than scattered individually, suggest deliberate and sustained use of a particular landscape for funerary purposes over generations. The clustering here, nine monuments packed into such a compact strip of ground, implies that this corner of Limerick held considerable significance for whoever was burying their dead in the area, even if the reasons are now beyond recovery.

The site sits roughly 40 metres west of a small stream and about 260 metres west of the townland boundary with Lissard, which gives some sense of its position within the landscape, though there is little to guide the eye once you are standing in the field itself. The ground is wet pasture, the kind that discourages casual wandering, and the absence of any visible surface remains means a visit rewards only those with a specific interest and the patience to read the landscape through maps and records rather than visible remains. Ó Ríordáin's 1936 publication remains the primary source for understanding what was found here, and the site records compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick, uploaded to the national database in September 2021, provide the clearest modern coordinates for anyone attempting to locate it.