This particular barrow, one of the five grouped together in the townland of Galboola, measures around 5.5 metres in external diameter, small enough to be overlooked entirely by anyone not already looking for it. A ring-barrow, in general terms, is a low earthen mound enclosed by a circular ditch and bank, typically associated with Bronze Age or early Iron Age funerary practice. What makes this cluster quietly remarkable is not any one monument but the arrangement itself, a linear grouping oriented on a roughly northwest to southeast axis, the kind of deliberate spatial patterning that suggests the landscape here once held some communal or ceremonial significance.

The site sits approximately fifteen metres northeast of the townland boundary with Rootiagh, facing southwest across the pasture. For all the time it has presumably occupied this hillside, it left no trace on the historical Ordnance Survey Ireland maps, which is itself telling. The monument only entered the formal record in 1986, when an aerial photographic survey centred on Bruff identified the circular crop or vegetation mark from above, logged under the reference Bruff 23703. It is visible on orthoimagery captured between 2005 and 2012, and again on Google Earth imagery from March 2017, though by June 2018 a denser growth of vegetation had made the outline harder to read. The record was compiled by Edmond O'Donovan and uploaded in September 2020, placing the site formally into the national monuments database for what appears to be the first time.

On the ground, this is not a site that announces itself. The barrow sits in working farmland, and the low earthwork is subtle enough that its outline is most reliably read from aerial imagery rather than at eye level. Those with access to the relevant OSi orthoimagery or Google Earth layers will find the site easier to locate and interpret than any ground-level visit might allow. The surrounding cluster of five ring-barrows together offers a more legible picture of the site's original intent than any single monument does alone, and it is worth cross-referencing all five recorded references before visiting to understand the full extent of the grouping.