It measures only four metres across and its defining ditch, a fosse, is scarcely more than a whisper in the ground, eleven centimetres deep and less than two metres wide. What makes it legible as an ancient monument at all is partly the ring of wild irises that traces its circuit, and the waterlogging that pools in its southern quarter, the land here draining poorly and lying open to a boggy stretch to the south-east.

This is a ditch barrow, a form of prehistoric funerary monument consisting of a low rounded mound enclosed by a shallow surrounding ditch, with no bank beyond it. The type is found scattered across Ireland, often surviving only as subtle earthworks that escape notice for centuries. This particular example, recorded on 9 December 2008 by field surveyors Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly, sits conjoined to a second ditch barrow immediately to the north-east, and a third of the same type lies roughly 52 metres further to the east-north-east. The clustering of three such monuments in close proximity suggests this was once a purposeful funerary landscape, even if nothing of what it once meant has survived above ground beyond the mounds themselves.