Walk across it and you might notice nothing at all. Look down at it from the air, or pull it up on a satellite image taken on the right day in late May, and something else emerges: a faint oblong cropmark, roughly fifteen metres across its longest axis, betraying the outline of ancient earthworks that no Ordnance Survey map has ever recorded.

The site was first identified not by excavation or fieldwork but by an aerial photographic survey carried out over Bruff in 1986, when a ring-barrow became visible from above. A ring-barrow is a prehistoric burial monument, typically a low mound enclosed by a circular bank and an outer ditch, and what survives here is a double form. When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland assessed it in 2008, surveyors recorded two conjoined areas: a roughly circular shape measuring around five metres north to south on the western side, and a slightly smaller subcircular shape to the east, the two linked by a shallow fosse, which is the archaeological term for a ditch or trench cut into the ground. The outer bank survives in better condition along the north-east to south-west arc, while the remainder has been worn to an almost imperceptible ridge. The whole arrangement appears to cut into the outer bank of a separate enclosure that sits at the centre of the same field, suggesting the two monuments are related, though precisely how remains unresolved. Five other possible barrows have been recorded nearby in the same cluster.

The site sits some forty-five metres north-west of the townland boundary with Ballyhurst, and commands a clear view of Knockseefin to the west-north-west. Because the earthworks are so slight at ground level, visibility is best understood through the Google Earth orthoimage taken on 25 May 2017, where the cropmark appears with reasonable clarity. The surrounding pasture is described as wet and level, so appropriate footwear matters. This is private agricultural land, and there is nothing dramatically visible to the naked eye on the surface; what the site offers is more a question of knowing what to look for, and understanding how much can be missed simply by walking in a straight line across a field.