What survives here is neither a monument in any obvious sense nor a ruin you could photograph easily; it is more of an absence, a sunken area roughly a metre below the surrounding ground level, wrapped in dense overgrowth and easy to miss entirely from either carriageway that flanks it.

A ring barrow is a prehistoric burial monument, typically a low mound or hollowed circular enclosure defined by a ditch and sometimes an outer bank, generally associated with the Bronze Age. This particular example was described by O Rahilly in 1990 as a D-shaped area measuring approximately 34 metres east to west, a shape that may be the result of later interference rather than original design. O Rahilly suggested the monument was probably circular to begin with, but was truncated to the south at some point by the construction of the old road that now forms one of its boundaries. The thin strip of land it occupies lies between the R523 and the N21, meaning the enclosure has been effectively pinched between two routes, the more recent road cutting into one edge just as its predecessor may have done centuries before.

Access is complicated by that same geography. The site sits in a narrow band of land between two public roads, and the dense overgrowth noted in the site record does not make inspection straightforward. There is no formal visitor access, and the monument is not signposted. Anyone interested in finding it should note the approximate location between the R523 and N21 in the Ballinlyny area and approach with patience. The internal hollow, roughly a metre below the surrounding ground, is the clearest indicator of what lies beneath the vegetation, though in summer months the growth will make even that difficult to read. It is the kind of site that rewards careful attention rather than a quick glance from the road.