What makes this particular patch of ground worth attention is that it was deliberately levelled around 1950, yet it has refused to entirely disappear. A ring barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument consisting of a raised central mound enclosed by a surrounding ditch or fosse, was effectively erased from the landscape within living memory, and yet its outline persists, readable from satellite imagery even decades later.

When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland examined the site in 2000, enough remained to take careful measurements. The raised circular area measured twelve metres in diameter, defined by a scarped edge rising roughly 0.4 metres, with an external fosse, that is, a surrounding ditch, up to four metres wide, still visible across the south-east to northern arc of the monument. A possible ramped entrance, approximately three metres wide, faced east. Inside, the uneven ground contained a narrow channel running east to west, likely a drainage ditch added at some later point. A separate drainage ditch, post-dating 1700, bisects the monument entirely, suggesting that agricultural improvement had been eating into the site long before it was levelled. The ringfort recorded approximately 150 metres to the west, just across the townland boundary with Bawnacouma, hints that this was once a more densely marked landscape than its present appearance suggests.

The site sits on a slight east-facing slope, 70 metres east of the Bawnacouma townland boundary, within ordinary grazing land. There is nothing here that announces itself to a passing visitor; the scarped edges and fosse that the ASI measured in 2000 have been considerably reduced, and ground-level inspection is unlikely to reveal much without the context of the survey drawings or a careful look at the Google Earth orthoimage taken in February 2018, where the circular outline remains faintly legible beneath the fields. The value of the place lies less in what can be seen and more in what the record preserves, a monument that survived millennia only to meet a plough around the middle of the twentieth century, and whose ghost still shows through in the right light.