Yet this small ring barrow in the wet pastureland of Ballynaveen sits on the western edge of a cluster of at least seven such monuments, a quiet prehistoric cemetery spread across a few hundred metres of gently rolling ground in County Tipperary.

Ring barrows are among the more understated remnants of Bronze Age funerary practice in Ireland. The form is essentially a low circular mound or levelled interior space defined by a bank and a fosse, the fosse being a shallow surrounding ditch, sometimes with a further outer bank beyond that. This particular example was not identified through ground survey but spotted on an Ordnance Survey aerial photograph, which is itself a reminder of how many such features only become legible from above, their profiles too subtle to read at eye level. The monument consists of a circular area enclosed by an earthen scarp, with a shallow fosse at its outer edge and a low broad bank beyond that. The western half of the circuit survives in noticeably better condition than the eastern half, which has been worn to near invisibility at ground level. Several companion monuments lie within easy reach: two further ring barrows to the south-southeast and northeast, and four ditch barrows scattered to the east and southeast, each within roughly a hundred metres.

The interior of this barrow is level and clear of overgrowth, which means the slight earthworks are readable if you know what you are looking for, though the difference in height between the bank and the surrounding pasture amounts to only about ten centimetres. In wet conditions, the fosse may be easier to trace than the bank itself.