The ground dips and rises by a matter of centimetres, the grass grows over everything, and there is nothing to announce that this slight undulation belongs to a class of prehistoric monuments that once marked, in all likelihood, a place of burial or ceremony. What makes it stranger still is that it does not appear on Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps at all, meaning it accumulated no cartographic memory across the centuries of mapping that recorded so much of the Irish landscape.

The monument was surveyed by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland in 2008 and recorded as a roughly circular area measuring 9.4 metres north to south and 9 metres east to west. A ring-barrow is, in simple terms, a low burial mound or enclosed area defined by a surrounding ditch, known as a fosse, and sometimes by an earthen bank; this example is defined by a scarp, a subtle change in ground level no more than 15 centimetres high, and an external fosse roughly 1.8 to 1.9 metres wide and only around 10 to 17 centimetres deep. The interior carries a slight east-facing slope and is fully grass-covered. A nearby ring-barrow sits 12 metres to the northwest, and a separate enclosure lies 65 metres to the west, suggesting this corner of Bunavie held some sustained significance in prehistoric use. The site sits 65 metres west of the townland boundary with Ballyvoneen, compiled in its current record form by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly and uploaded in October 2020.

What a visitor would notice on the ground is very little, and that is precisely the point. The terrain is wet and cut through with land drains and watercourses, so appropriate footwear matters considerably. The most revealing view of the monument is not from standing on it but from above: a Google Earth orthoimage taken in November 2018 shows a much larger oval-shaped cropmark, measuring 25 metres north to south and 20 metres east to west, suggesting that what survives on the surface is only part of a more substantial original feature. Cropmarks form when buried archaeology affects how vegetation grows above it, making aerial or satellite imagery the sharpest tool for reading a site like this one. The surrounding pasture is rough and the monument blends entirely into its setting, which is perhaps why it was overlooked by earlier mapmakers for so long.