That fact alone gives the site a particular quality: it exists, in any practical sense, mainly on paper.

A ring barrow is a low funerary mound, typically from the Bronze Age, encircled by a ditch, known archaeologically as a fosse, and an outer earthen bank. The combination of mound, fosse, and bank was intended to demarcate the burial as a distinct, bounded space, separating the dead from the surrounding landscape. The example at Curreeny Commons is notably modest even by the standards of the type: the overall diameter of the enclosed area is just six metres, barely the width of a modest sitting room. It sits on poorly drained upland ground, with a stream running immediately to the south, which may help explain why the land here was never heavily improved or cultivated, and why a small earthwork might theoretically survive. The details come from Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien's archaeological inventory of North Tipperary, published in 2002, with additional information attributed to Eamon Cody.

What is quietly compelling about this particular site is that its elusiveness is part of the record. The surveyor visited and could not locate it. The monument may be heavily overgrown, masked by rushes and wet ground vegetation of the kind that colonises poorly drained upland in Tipperary, or it may have been damaged or reduced since the description was compiled. At six metres across, it would be easy to walk past without registering it as anything other than a slight irregularity in the bog grass.