Centuries of ploughing have levelled what was once a barrow, a type of earthen funerary mound common across prehistoric Ireland and Britain, leaving nothing visible at ground level. What gives it away is a cropmark, the faint difference in the colour and height of growing crops that reveals buried features to a camera looking down from above. In dry summers, when soil moisture over buried ditches and banks behaves differently from the surrounding earth, the ghost of a monument can appear in a field of grain as clearly as a sketch on paper.

The site was identified on an aerial photograph taken on 13 July 1989. The image showed a circular enclosure roughly 20 metres in diameter, defined by a deep fosse (a substantial ditch) and an external bank, the classic arrangement of a ring-ditch barrow. A small pit cropmark visible in the interior suggests a burial deposit at the centre. The site does not stand alone: a second circular cropmark sits immediately adjacent, the two features appearing contiguous and sharing a common enclosing external bank. Around both monuments, further cropmarks outline a rectilinear field system, though whether those field boundaries belong to the same period as the barrows or represent a later, unrelated phase of land use is uncertain. The area sits roughly 90 metres west of a river that flows south into the Nore, and the outer ring road completed in 2007 runs close to the west. The monument has also been identified in more recent satellite imagery, confirming that the cropmark signature persists under the right conditions.