No earthwork rises dramatically from the field, no marker points the way, and the monument does not appear on Ordnance Survey Ireland's historic maps at all. What exists here is essentially a ghost in the landscape, one that only became known to archaeologists when it was spotted from the air.

A ring barrow is a type of burial monument typically dating to the Bronze Age or early Iron Age, consisting of a low mound or flat central area enclosed by a circular ditch, known as a fosse, and usually an outer earthen bank. This particular example came to light during the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986, when it showed up as a circular-shaped cropmark in the survey image catalogued as Bruff 182 (AP 4/3607). Cropmarks form when buried features such as ditches or banks affect the growth of surface vegetation, making ancient structures legible from above even when they have long since been flattened at ground level. Subsequent aerial imagery confirmed the monument's shape and scale: a Google Earth orthoimage from April 2006 shows an arc of the fosse measuring approximately 27 metres, while images from the OSi and Digital Globe platforms, taken between 2005 and 2013, reveal a circular earthwork around 34 metres in diameter, defined by an internal fosse and an outer bank. A related barrow, recorded as LI032-209, lies around 415 metres to the west-southwest. The site was compiled for the archaeological record by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly, with the record uploaded in November 2020.

The monument sits roughly 675 metres east of the Camoge River, which doubles as the townland boundary between Herbertstown and Kilcullane. Because it lies in working agricultural land and reads as little more than a faint earthwork at ground level, there is no obvious feature to seek out on foot. The most rewarding way to engage with this site is through the aerial imagery available via Google Earth or the OSi map viewer, where the circular outline becomes legible in a way it simply is not from the field margin. Summer visits, when crops or differential grass growth are more likely to reveal subsurface features as cropmarks, offer the best chance of seeing something from a distance, though conditions vary considerably from year to year.