It is, in fact, a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument in which a circular area is defined by a surrounding ditch, known as a fosse, and an enclosing bank. The bank here rises only about ten centimetres on its outer face but reaches thirty-five centimetres on the interior, giving the enclosed space a slightly sunken, bowl-like quality. The whole structure measures roughly eleven metres north to south and thirteen metres east to west, modest in scale but legible once you know what you are looking at.

What makes this particular site quietly arresting is its company. Approximately 110 metres to the south lie two further prehistoric monuments, a cairn and another ring barrow, suggesting that this hillside in Dromskarragh More was not randomly chosen but formed part of a deliberate funerary or ceremonial landscape. Ring barrows are generally associated with the Bronze Age, though they appear across a long span of prehistoric activity in Ireland, and their clustering in a single locality often points to a place that held significance across generations. Whether the people buried or commemorated here knew one another, or whether each monument marks a different era of use, is the kind of question the ground itself keeps.