The site at Carrickittle is not a single dramatic monument but a loose congregation of ring-barrows, a tumulus, and two earthen platforms, spread across adjoining fields with no obvious ceremonial arrangement to explain why they ended up where they did.

A ring-barrow, in the broadest sense, is a low circular mound of earth or rubble enclosed by a surrounding ditch, known as a fosse, and typically associated with Bronze Age burial practice. What makes Carrickittle worth attention is the sheer number of them gathered in one modest location. The archaeologist M. J. O'Kelly recorded the complex in 1944, noting that eight of the barrows and the two platforms share a single field, a ninth barrow sits in the nearest corner of the field to the north, and a tumulus occupies the nearest corner of the field to the east. O'Kelly observed that all the barrows follow exactly the same method of construction, consisting of very slight circular mounds surrounded by fosses with no outer banks, though their diameters vary considerably, ranging from roughly 4.5 metres to 11 metres across. He also noted that no particular arrangement is observable in how they are laid out across the ground, which is itself a curious detail, suggesting either that the pattern has been obscured over time or that the logic behind their placement simply does not conform to what we might expect.

The site lies immediately east of a road, with a sand-pit recorded just to the west of that road. Because the monuments occupy low-land marsh meadow, conditions underfoot can be soft, particularly after wet weather, which in Limerick is not a rare event. The barrows are subtle earthworks rather than imposing structures, so knowing in advance that you are looking for gentle circular rises surrounded by shallow ditches will help orient you on the ground. The wider complex, catalogued under the Sites and Monuments Record for County Limerick, rewards the kind of visitor who is content to read a landscape slowly rather than look for something immediately legible.