This particular barrow, a low earthen or stone mound raised over a burial, sits in wet pasture roughly 105 metres south of the boundary between Mitchelstowndown West and Mitchelstowndown North, and its existence was not recorded on any Ordnance Survey historic maps. It was only when a Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph, taken on 3 November 1984 and catalogued as BGE 2573, Site No. 347, was examined that the feature was identified at all. The ground gave nothing away; it was the view from above that disclosed it.

What makes the site more significant than a single overlooked mound is its context. It forms part of a cluster of seven possible barrows grouped within an area of approximately 100 metres north to south by 120 metres east to west, all within Mitchelstowndown West. Three hundred metres to the east lies something considerably larger: a barrow cemetery containing 36 possible barrows, suggesting that this corner of Limerick was once a substantial focus of funerary activity during prehistory. Barrow cemeteries of this kind, where communities buried their dead across generations in an accumulating landscape of mounds, are known elsewhere in Ireland, but their full extent is frequently underestimated because so many have been reduced or obscured by centuries of agriculture. The record for this site was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded to the national database in September 2021.

For anyone curious enough to seek it out, expectations should be adjusted accordingly. Current Google Earth orthoimages show no surface remains, and the ground is described as wet pasture, so the site offers nothing to see in the conventional sense. The value lies instead in the knowledge that the field contains something, and that without aerial photography it would never have been suspected. The surrounding townland boundary, the larger cemetery complex to the east, and the invisible cluster of mounds underfoot together form a picture of a prehistoric community whose burial practices have almost entirely retreated below the surface of a working Irish farm.