It is the kind of site that rewards patience with archives rather than a walk in the field, because the field itself may no longer give much away.

A ring-barrow is a low, circular earthen mound enclosed by a surrounding ditch and external bank, typically associated with Bronze Age or Iron Age funerary practice. This particular example, roughly ten metres in external diameter, sits in rough pasture about a hundred metres northwest of the townland boundary with Newtown, set within a forest clearing. It never appeared on historic Ordnance Survey Ireland maps, which makes its formal identification all the more reliant on aerial observation. That identification came in 1986, through the Bruff aerial photographic survey, where it was catalogued as Bruff 40 and recorded under aerial photograph reference AP 4/3625. Subsequent orthoimagery captured by Ordnance Survey Ireland between 2005 and 2012 confirmed the monument was still visible from above during that window. By the time a Google Earth image was taken on 18 November 2018, however, the feature had ceased to be legible in the imagery. Whether that reflects vegetation change, ground disturbance, or simply the limitations of a single satellite pass is not recorded. The site was compiled by Edmond O'Donovan and uploaded to the record in September 2020.

For anyone wishing to locate the site on the ground, the surrounding forestry and the rough character of the pasture mean that access is likely to be awkward, and there is no guarantee that the earthwork retains any surface expression visible to a walker. The archive record, including the Bruff survey image labelled Bruff 40 and the comparative orthoimagery, is more informative than the landscape itself may currently be. This is a site whose interest lies as much in its archival biography, its discovery from the air, its absence from older maps, and its gradual fading from view again, as in any physical presence on the ground.