This one barely exists at all, at least to the naked eye. What lies in a flat stretch of reclaimed pasture near Bruff, in County Limerick, is a ditch-barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument typically consisting of a low central mound ringed by a surrounding ditch, that survives here not as any visible feature on the ground but as a ghostly circular cropmark, legible only from the air under the right conditions. The field has, in effect, consumed it, leaving only the faintest chemical memory in the soil.

The site was identified during the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986, catalogued as Bruff 58 and referenced under survey image AP5/2059. It sits 160 metres south-west of the Morningstar River, immediately east of a field drain that doubles as the townland boundary with Garbally. The circular cropmark, which forms when buried ditches retain or drain moisture differently to the surrounding subsoil and cause the overlying vegetation to grow at a slightly different rate, was faint enough that its classification remains qualified as a possible ditch-barrow. A second possible ditch-barrow lies just 20 metres to the south-west, and a further possible earthwork is recorded in the same immediate area, suggesting this pocket of low-lying ground may once have held a small cluster of funerary monuments. The cropmark was still detectable, if faintly, on Ordnance Survey Ireland orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012, and again on a Google Earth image captured on 20 September 2020. The record was compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded to the Sites and Monuments Record in March 2021.

There is nothing to see on the ground in any conventional sense. The field is ordinary working pasture, and the townland boundary drain beside it is unremarkable. For anyone curious enough to seek it out, the value is really in looking at the aerial and satellite imagery rather than standing in the field itself. The Google Earth orthoimage from September 2020 offers the clearest modern view, and comparing it against the 1986 survey photograph gives a sense of how persistent, if fragile, these cropmark signatures can be across decades. The surrounding landscape, low and damp and flattened by agricultural improvement, makes it easy to understand why the monuments themselves were levelled long ago, even if the soil has not quite finished recording them.