This ditch barrow, a prehistoric funerary monument defined by a circular fosse rather than a raised mound, measures just ten metres in diameter and sits on the floodplain of the Camoge River, cut through by land drains and watercourses. A fosse, for those unfamiliar with the term, is essentially a ditch or trench dug around a monument to demarcate it, in this case defining a small circular enclosure likely associated with burial rites from the prehistoric period. The modest scale of it, barely the footprint of a large house, makes its survival in the archaeological record quietly remarkable.

The monument was not identified until 1986, when the Bruff aerial photographic survey captured it as a small circular cropmark (recorded as Bruff 280, AP 4/3607). Cropmarks appear when buried features such as ditches or walls affect the growth of surface vegetation above them, often showing most clearly during dry summers when grass over a filled ditch stays greener longer, or over a buried wall dries out faster. The monument's presence was subsequently confirmed through later orthoimagery: it appears as a faint but roughly circular earthwork on OSi images taken between 2005 and 2012, as a cropmark on Digital Globe imagery from 2011 to 2013, and again on a Google Earth image captured on 25 May 2017. The site sits in a landscape that is clearly significant in archaeological terms. An enclosure lies approximately 60 metres to the south-west, and a ring-barrow, another type of circular funerary monument, lies around 165 metres to the north-east. The Camoge River, just 75 metres to the west, also marks the boundary between this townland and the neighbouring townland of Kilcullane. The record was compiled by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly and uploaded in November 2020.

Accessing the site requires some practical consideration. The ground is low-lying and wet, crossed by drainage channels, and this is working agricultural pasture rather than managed heritage land. The earthwork itself is subtle enough on the ground that a visitor without prior knowledge of its exact location might walk past it entirely. The best way to orient yourself before visiting is to consult the OSi orthoimage layers, which give a clearer sense of the circular fosse than anything visible at ground level. The surrounding landscape rewards attention too, given the density of prehistoric activity in the immediate area, and the proximity of the Camoge River gives a sense of why people repeatedly chose this particular stretch of low ground over a very long period of time.