This is one of three barrows grouped together in the same field, and it belongs to a category of prehistoric burial monument that survives here in its most ghostly form: no raised profile, no obvious marker, just a circular trace roughly 4.75 metres in diameter, readable only from the air under the right conditions.

A barrow is, broadly speaking, a burial mound or enclosure from prehistory, often associated with the Bronze Age or earlier, though ditch barrows in Ireland span a wide range of periods and forms. This particular example was not identified through fieldwork or excavation but through aerial photography. It first appeared as a circular cropmark on photographs taken on 3 November 1984 during survey work for the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West to Limerick gas pipeline. Cropmarks form when buried features such as ditches or banks affect the growth of grass or crops above them, producing patterns visible from altitude that are entirely invisible at ground level. The site does not appear on the Ordnance Survey Ireland six-inch maps, the standard historical baseline for such records, which suggests it was either not recognised at the time of those surveys or had already been reduced to its present, near-invisible state. A faint trace was later confirmed on OSi orthophotographs taken between 2005 and 2012, and the cropmark showed up more clearly again on a Google Earth image dated 20 March 2018. The record was compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded to the national monuments database in September 2021.

Because there is no upstanding monument here, a visitor should not expect to see anything meaningful from the ground. The site sits in wet pasture, which means access can be difficult underfoot, particularly in autumn or winter. Its interest lies less in what can be seen in person and more in what the aerial record reveals: a buried ditch, circular in plan, quietly persisting beneath a working field in Limerick. Those curious about the site are better served by consulting the aerial photographs held in the national record, where the geometry of the buried feature becomes legible in a way the landscape itself refuses to offer.