It does not announce itself with a mound or a standing stone. Instead, it survives as a ring of disturbed ground, a ditch tracing out a circle roughly seven metres across, the kind of detail you would only notice if you knew to look, or happened to be studying aerial photography from the right angle and the right year.

A ditch barrow is a funerary monument, typically prehistoric in origin, where the defining feature is not a raised earthen mound but the circular trench cut around the burial area. Over centuries of farming and weather, the enclosed ground may have flattened entirely, leaving the ditch as the sole legible trace. This particular example in Boherroe came to formal attention through Ordnance Survey Ireland orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012, which revealed the circular outline with enough clarity to record it. The site was compiled by Caimin O'Brien, drawing on details supplied by Edmond O'Donovan, and uploaded to the national record in September 2020. It does not exist in isolation; two further barrows lie within easy walking distance, recorded separately, one roughly 70 metres to the north-north-west and another about 90 metres in the same general direction. Together they suggest a small funerary landscape that once had more coherence than the present scattered pasture implies.

The ground here is wet and only partially reclaimed, which is both the reason the monument survived and the reason it is not straightforward to visit. There is no path to the feature, no marker, and no infrastructure of any kind. The circular ditch is not visible to the naked eye in the way a standing earthwork might be; its presence was confirmed from aerial imagery rather than ground survey, so a visitor walking the field would need considerable patience and a good sense of the approximate location. The surrounding terrain repays attention regardless, since the proximity of the other two barrows means this corner of Limerick holds a quiet concentration of early burial activity that the unremarkable appearance of the land gives little indication of.