It exists, at least for now, only as a cropmark, a ghostly outline pressed into the soil and readable only from the air, where the differential growth of crops above buried features betrays the shape of something ancient beneath the surface. What it reveals is a ditch barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument in which a burial mound or flat circular area is enclosed by a surrounding fosse, or ditch, rather than built up as a solid earthwork. The overall diameter of this example runs to approximately fifteen metres, with the inner circular area measuring around nine metres across.

The site was identified by Caimin O'Brien through aerial imagery, specifically a Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011 and 2013, corroborated by earlier Ordnance Survey Ireland orthoimages. A Google Earth image from 14 February 2020 further confirmed the feature. Cropmarks of this kind tend to appear most clearly in dry summers, when buried ditches, which retain moisture longer than the surrounding soil, produce lusher or taller growth overhead, throwing the buried plan into relief. What makes this particular site additionally interesting is that a second barrow, recorded separately in the Sites and Monuments Record under reference LI021-193, sits immediately to the northeast, suggesting this may once have been a small funerary grouping rather than an isolated monument.

There is nothing to see at ground level. The field at Ballyouragan gives no obvious indication of what lies beneath it, and the site is on private land with no public access infrastructure. The feature is visible on Google Earth using the coordinates for Ballyouragan, and the February 2020 image cited in the record is a reasonable starting point for anyone wanting to study the cropmark pattern from above. For those with an interest in the archaeology, the Sites and Monuments Record entry provides the formal context, and pairing this barrow with the adjacent LI021-193 record gives a clearer picture of what may once have been a small cluster of prehistoric burial monuments in this otherwise unremarkable corner of Limerick.