These circular earthen mounds, built during the Bronze Age as burial monuments, are common enough across Ireland, but this one went entirely unrecorded by the cartographers who mapped the landscape around it. It only came to light because of what crops do when they grow above disturbed or compacted soil: they betray the outlines of buried features through variations in colour and height, a phenomenon known as a crop mark.

The site was identified during an aerial photographic survey centred on Bruff in 1986, catalogued as Bruff 51 (AP 4/3684), when the circular outline became legible from above. The monument sits in pasture roughly twenty metres south of a neighbouring enclosure, recorded separately in the archaeological inventory. The circular crop mark measures approximately fifteen metres in diameter, and its presence was later confirmed through Digital Globe satellite imagery captured between 2011 and 2013. The survey was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded to the record in July 2020, meaning this barrow spent the better part of three decades as little more than an entry waiting to be written up.

Because the feature is subterranean and sits beneath working pasture, there is nothing visible at ground level for a visitor to identify without prior knowledge of its location. The surrounding landscape near Boherroe is quietly agricultural, and the barrow's position can only really be appreciated through aerial or satellite imagery rather than a walk across the field. The neighbouring enclosure, LI024-240, is the more practical reference point when reading the record. For anyone with an interest in how Ireland's prehistoric landscape gets pieced together, the story here is as much about the methodology, aerial survey, remote sensing, crop-mark analysis, as it is about the monument itself.