This one in the Gormanstown (Phillips) townland of County Limerick announces itself with almost nothing at all. Set in wet pasture roughly fifty metres north of the boundary with the neighbouring townland of Balline, it is a possible ditch-barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary or ceremonial monument typically consisting of a low central mound enclosed by a circular ditch. It does not appear on any Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps, and there is nothing visible at ground level to suggest anything unusual lies beneath the grass and standing water.

The site came to attention not through fieldwork but through aerial photography. A Bord Gáis Éireann survey flight on 3 November 1984, conducted at a scale of 1:5,000, produced images in which the feature was tentatively identified as a possible barrow. Aerial archaeology works on the principle that buried features, invisible on the surface, can reveal themselves from above through differences in crop growth, soil colour, or, in this case, vegetation patterning. The record groups this site alongside two other possible ditch-barrows located in close proximity, catalogued together under the Sites and Monuments Record references LI040-065001 through 003. A Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011 and 2013 showed no surface traces whatsoever, but a Google Earth image from 14 September 2019 captured a clearing in the vegetation that may correspond to the feature first noticed in 1984. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in May 2021.

Because there are no surface remains, a visit here is really an exercise in reading a landscape rather than examining a monument. The wet pasture setting means the ground can be difficult underfoot, particularly in the wetter months, and the townland boundary with Balline provides the most useful navigational reference point. What is worth holding in mind is that the significance of this place rests almost entirely in the archive, in a decades-old aerial photograph and a more recent satellite image, and that the monument itself, if it is one, continues to exist below the surface, unexcavated and uncertain.