A ring barrow, a low circular mound typically raised over a prehistoric burial and defined by a surrounding ditch and bank, once sat here in the grass. It was found not by archaeologists with surveying equipment but during land reclamation, when a small enclosure of roughly six to seven yards across came to light, its bank still standing about two feet high. Today there is no visible surface trace of it at all.

What makes this corner of Ballydaly quietly strange is not the single barrow but the cluster of activity recorded around it. In 1937, a researcher named Broker documented the area around Dan Gearon's land and noted, alongside a substantial fort, two further nearly levelled enclosures measuring approximately thirty and ten yards in diameter. One of these carried an unusual detail, the fosse, the surrounding ditch, appeared to run inside the rampart rather than outside it. A fosse placed inside the bank is an arrangement sometimes associated with ring barrows rather than defensive enclosures, and its presence here suggested a funerary or ritual rather than a military purpose. A second possible ring barrow has been identified roughly 150 metres to the north-west, hinting that this stretch of mid Cork farmland may once have held a loose grouping of prehistoric burial monuments, the kind of landscape cluster that often indicates a place held in some ceremonial significance over a long period.