It is easy to miss, partly because it sits at the base of a gently undulating slope rather than on a commanding hilltop, and partly because the interior has long been absorbed into the surrounding field, grazed and levelled like any other patch of farmland. What gives it away, if you know what to look for, is the faint scarped edge encircling a roughly oval area, and the low depression of the fosse running around its outside.

A ring barrow is a prehistoric funerary monument, typically consisting of a low central mound or platform enclosed by a circular ditch, known as a fosse, often with an earthen bank beyond it. The example at Ballybricken is modest in scale but reasonably well-preserved in its basic form. The circular area measures approximately 11 metres north to south and 9.5 metres east to west, defined by a scarped edge around 3 metres wide and just 0.3 metres high. The external fosse has a basal width of 2 metres, an overall width of 10.45 metres, and a depth of 0.55 metres. At the south-west and south-south-east, the fosse has been filled in where a former field boundary once ran along a west-north-west to east-south-east axis; that boundary has since been replaced by an electric fence, which now cuts across where the ditch once read most clearly. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in October 2013.

Access to the site is across private farmland, so any visit would require the landowner's permission. The monument itself offers no signage or formal presentation; it survives as a working field, and the most visible features are the subtle change in ground level at the scarped edge and the slight hollow of the fosse where it has not been filled. Walking the perimeter is the best way to read the shape, particularly in low, raking light, which tends to bring out earthwork relief far more clearly than flat midday sun. Autumn and winter, when grass growth is low, are the most rewarding seasons for this kind of ground-reading.