From a distance, or even at close range without knowing what to look for, the whole thing could easily be dismissed as a natural undulation in the pasture. It is not. What survives here is a circular earthwork, 17 metres across in total, built with a degree of deliberate geometry that only becomes apparent once you begin to read the landscape carefully.

The structure consists of a central mound, 6 metres in diameter and just 0.2 metres high, ringed by a shallow ditch 0.5 metres wide. Outside that sits a slightly more substantial enclosing bank, roughly 3 metres wide and 0.3 metres in height, and beyond that a further ditch and a second, more subtle outer bank, only a metre wide and 0.15 metres high. A barrow, in the broadest sense, is a burial mound or funerary monument of prehistoric origin, and the layered, concentric arrangement here is consistent with that tradition. According to notes compiled by Dr Eugene Costello and uploaded in February 2023, the earthwork may be the remains of a prehistoric barrow comparable to a recorded example at Monaster South in the same county, with parallels noted across Limerick and Tipperary in research by Doody from 1993 and 2008. Six metres to the north lie the remains of a separate sub-rectangular enclosure, and five metres to the west an old field boundary runs in a straight north-to-south line. These features may themselves be pre-modern, though they appear to have no direct connection to the circular earthwork.

Because this is low-lying agricultural land with subtle earthworks rather than dramatic masonry, a visit requires patience and a good eye. The concentric banks and ditches are most legible in low winter light, when raking shadows pick out changes in ground level that are otherwise easy to miss. Google Earth imagery from 2006 through to 2021 shows how the earthwork reads differently across seasons and years, and consulting those images beforehand gives a useful sense of what to expect. Approach the site with an awareness that the surrounding field boundaries and enclosure remnants are separate features, not part of the barrow itself, even though they sit within a few metres of it.