The example that survives in the townland of Carrigeen, County Limerick, never made it onto any historical Ordnance Survey Ireland maps. For generations it sat in reclaimed pasture, apparently unrecorded, until aerial photographs taken on 6 November 1984 brought it into focus. Those photographs were commissioned in connection with a Bórd Gáis Éireann pipeline, the Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline, and the monument appeared as Site 6/1 on map 6 of the associated survey. It was not the pipeline's intended discovery, but it is the more lasting one.

What the aerial photographs revealed, and what later Google Earth orthoimages confirmed, is a modest but legible earthwork: an oval shape measuring roughly 7 metres on its north-west to south-east axis and 11 metres on its north-east to south-west axis, defined by that encircling fosse and its outer bank. The monument sits approximately 150 metres from the Morningstar River, which serves as the townland boundary between Carrigeen and Camas South, and about 140 metres north-west of a separate recorded excavation site nearby. A curvilinear feature visible on a Google Earth orthoimage dated April 2013 appears to represent the remains of an old watercourse running along either side of the monument, suggesting the barrow may once have sat in a more visibly watery or marshy landscape than the drained pasture that surrounds it today.

Because the site is on private agricultural land and is not marked on any publicly available historical mapping, it is not straightforward to locate on the ground. The monument is unlikely to present as anything dramatic at field level; earthworks of this scale, especially in reclaimed and ploughed pasture, can appear as little more than a subtle rise or a faint depression depending on the season and the light. Winter or early spring, when vegetation is low, tends to offer the clearest view of any surviving earthwork definition. The Morningstar River nearby, and the broader flat character of this part of County Limerick, give some sense of the ancient relationship between burial monuments and waterways that recurs across Irish prehistoric landscapes. Anyone hoping to visit should seek landowner permission and treat the surrounding pasture accordingly.