None of the five ring-barrows appear on Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps, meaning generations of surveyors passed over them without a mark. A ring-barrow, broadly speaking, is a circular earthwork consisting of a low central mound enclosed by a ditch and sometimes an outer bank, typically associated with burial or ritual activity in the Bronze Age. That these five should cluster together in a single field quadrant, unrecorded, says something about how much of the Irish landscape still awaits proper documentation.

The monuments came to light not through ground survey but through the air. A photographic survey carried out from Bruff in 1986, catalogued as Bruff 109.01, identified the site as a ring-barrow complex. Aerial archaeology works on the principle that buried or low-relief features invisible at ground level can reveal themselves as cropmarks, variations in vegetation growth caused by the differential moisture and nutrient retention of disturbed soil beneath. That principle proved its worth here. One of the five barrows is visible as a circular cropmark of approximately eight metres in diameter on Ordnance Survey orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012, and the same feature appears again on a Google Earth image dated 20 September 2020. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in April 2021.

The site sits in working farmland and the barrows have no formal public access or waymarked approach. The wet pasture ground means conditions underfoot can be difficult, particularly in winter or after prolonged rain, and the field itself offers little by way of obvious landmarks to orient a visitor. The cropmarks that made these monuments legible to aerial surveyors are only visible from above or in the right satellite imagery, so anyone visiting at ground level will find the landscape largely unreadable without prior study of the orthophotos. Consulting the Google Earth imagery beforehand, to fix the approximate location within the northern quadrant of the field, is the most practical preparation. The monuments are catalogued under the reference numbers LI033-089001 to LI033-089005 in the National Monuments Service record.