Easy to walk past, easy to dismiss as a slight irregularity in the field, it is in fact a ditch barrow, a prehistoric funerary monument defined not by a raised mound but by a fosse, a encircling ditch, that demarcates a small interior platform. The ditch here measures roughly 1.7 metres across at its widest and only about half a metre at its base, more a scored line in the earth than a dramatic earthwork. Yet that modest groove was enough to separate the living world from whatever lay within.

This particular barrow sits on the eastern edge of a small cemetery of related monuments at Ballynaveen, and that clustering is what makes the site genuinely interesting. Within roughly a hundred metres in every direction, the landscape holds at least six other barrows, a mix of ring-barrows and ditch barrows. Ring-barrows and ditch barrows are closely related forms, both circular and both defined by a surrounding ditch, though ring-barrows typically retain a more pronounced internal mound. Together, these monuments represent a prehistoric community's deliberate choice to gather its dead, or its commemorative monuments, into one locale across what was presumably a significant span of time. The whole group was identified during field inspection rather than through aerial photography or excavation, which suggests the earthworks are subtle enough to have waited patiently in the pasture until someone walked the ground carefully enough to notice them.