This particular barrow, a prehistoric earthen mound typically raised over the remains of the dead, sits somewhere in reclaimed pasture in Mitchelstowndown West, County Limerick, roughly 75 metres south of a small watercourse that marks the boundary with the neighbouring townland of Mitchelstowndown North. It leaves no trace on the ground that can be seen today, and it never appeared on any Ordnance Survey Ireland historic mapping. It exists, for practical purposes, only as a cropmark or soil mark caught by a camera from altitude.

The identification came through an unlikely intermediary. When Bord Gáis Éireann was conducting aerial survey work, photograph BGE 2573, designated Site No. 353 and taken on the 3rd of November 1984, revealed what archaeologists subsequently interpreted as a barrow. That single image proved more informative than centuries of cartography. What makes this site particularly striking is the scale of what surrounds it. This is not an isolated find. The same general area, measuring approximately 250 metres north to south and 450 metres east to west, contains up to 36 possible barrows in total, making it a significant if almost entirely invisible prehistoric funerary landscape. A further cluster of seven possible barrows lies around 350 metres to the west. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded to the national monuments database in September 2021.

For anyone curious enough to seek this place out, it is worth being clear about what to expect, which is essentially nothing visible at ground level. No earthworks survive, no mounds, no obvious surface features. Google Earth orthoimages confirm the absence of any discernible remains. The value of standing in this pasture, if there is one, is conceptual rather than visual: the knowledge that the field underfoot may contain the traces of dozens of prehistoric burial monuments, all of them levelled by centuries of agricultural improvement, all of them legible only from the air. The watercourse to the north marks the townland boundary and offers a rough navigational guide, but there is no formal access, no signage, and nothing to mark the spot.