It would be almost entirely invisible to someone walking past, the kind of thing that disappears under cattle and seasons. What makes it legible at all is the view from above: an aerial photograph revealed it as a ring-ditch, the faint circular shadow of a ditch barrow whose earthworks have been largely levelled by centuries of agriculture.

A ditch barrow, sometimes called a ring-ditch barrow, is a funerary monument typically consisting of a low central mound, now often ploughed or grazed flat, surrounded by a circular fosse, or ditch, cut into the ground. This example at Mooresfort measures roughly 4.5 metres north to south and 5.5 metres east to west, defined by a shallow fosse approximately two metres wide and just ten centimetres deep. A short linear depression lies about four metres to the north, its long axis running roughly east-northeast to west-southwest. Such monuments are generally associated with Bronze Age burial practices in Ireland, though without excavation it is difficult to say more about who was interred here or when. What the dimensions do suggest is a relatively modest example of the type, sitting quietly above the waterlogged ground of the former flood plain, just far enough above the seasonal wet to have been a deliberate choice of location.