No earthwork rises from the grass, no stones break the soil, and the Ordnance Survey's historic maps record nothing there either. What we have, instead, is the shadow of a mound, caught briefly by an aerial camera on a November day in 1984.

The site sits in reclaimed pasture roughly 80 metres east of a farm access road in the townland of Gormanstown, in the area locally known as Grady. It is one of thirteen possible barrows recorded within a compact area measuring approximately 200 metres north to south and 250 metres east to west, all sharing the same ambiguous status in the archaeological record. A bowl-barrow, for context, is a low, rounded funerary mound of prehistoric origin, typically covering a central burial, and among the more common monument types found across Ireland from the Bronze Age onward. The identification here came not from fieldwork but from scrutiny of a Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph, reference BGE 2557, Site No. 13, taken on 3 November 1984, as part of the utility company's pipeline survey work. The Discovery Programme, the Irish archaeological research body, examined that photograph and proposed this as a potential example of the type. Subsequent examination of Google Earth orthoimages has revealed no surface trace whatsoever.

For anyone curious enough to look into the area, it is worth knowing that the cluster of thirteen possible monuments is what gives the site its real interest; a single ambiguous cropmark might be dismissed, but thirteen concentrated within such a small area suggests something more deliberate once took place here. The townland is in agricultural use and there is no formal public access or interpretation on the ground. A visitor would see only an ordinary field. The 1984 aerial photograph, referenced in the National Monuments Service record compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in May 2021, remains the primary evidence for the site's existence, and consulting that record beforehand is the most useful preparation for understanding what the landscape here may once have contained.