This is a ditch barrow, a type of funerary enclosure in which the defining feature is not a raised mound but a surrounding fosse, a cut ditch, that would once have marked out the burial space. Here, that fosse is remarkably slight: roughly two and a quarter metres wide but only about ten centimetres deep, tracing an arc from the north-west around through east and south to the south-west. The interior sits at more or less the same height as the ground outside it, which means the eye finds almost nothing to catch on when standing nearby.

The sub-circular enclosure measures approximately nine and a half metres north to south and eight and a half metres east to west, dimensions consistent with prehistoric funerary monuments of this class. What makes the site at Mooresfort quietly notable is that it does not stand alone. A second ditch barrow sits just four and a half metres to the north-east, suggesting that this corner of Tipperary once held a small cluster of related monuments, perhaps serving a community over several generations. Such groupings are known elsewhere in Ireland, where barrows of various types were deliberately placed near one another, the landscape accumulating layers of commemorative meaning across long periods of time. The fosse visible here is now much reduced, its profile softened by centuries of agricultural improvement, but aerial photography has confirmed the circular enclosure that ground-level observation would struggle to read.