It measures just seven metres across, and at ground level there is effectively nothing to see. The land around it is low-lying and poorly drained, threaded with drainage channels and small watercourses, the kind of unremarkable pastoral ground that tends to discourage close investigation. And yet the monument is there, circular and faint, visible only when crops or grass respond differently to the buried archaeology beneath.

A ditch-barrow is a funerary monument, typically a low earthen mound ringed by a surrounding ditch rather than built up into a prominent cairn or earthwork. This particular example came to light not through excavation or chance discovery, but through aerial photography. The Bruff aerial photographic survey of 1986 recorded it as a circular cropmark, the slight differential in how vegetation grows over disturbed or compacted soil betraying the presence of the ditch below. Cropmarks of this kind appear because buried features such as ditches retain moisture and encourage deeper root growth, causing the plants above to grow more vigorously and show as darker patches from altitude. The site was recorded again between 2011 and 2015 on Digital Globe orthoimagery, and once more on a Google Earth image taken in March 2017, each time presenting the same faint ring. It sits roughly fifty metres northwest of a stream that doubles as the townland boundary with Garrison, and within forty metres of a second ditch-barrow and seventy metres of a related enclosure, suggesting a small cluster of prehistoric activity in this otherwise unremarkable corner of south County Limerick. The record was compiled by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly and uploaded to the national monuments database in October 2020.

For anyone wishing to locate the site, the surrounding terrain is worth bearing in mind. The pasture is cut by land drains and liable to be wet underfoot, particularly in winter and early spring. There is no visible surface feature to orient yourself by once you are standing in the field. The monument is best appreciated, in a practical sense, through the aerial images associated with the national monuments record rather than any on-the-ground inspection. If you do visit the general area, look for the stream marking the Garrison townland boundary as a reference point, and bear in mind that the neighbouring monuments to the northwest and northeast are similarly invisible at field level.