Ring barrows are circular funerary monuments, typically from the Bronze Age, consisting of a low earthen bank enclosing a central area, sometimes covering a burial, sometimes not. What makes this one at Moanmore worth pausing over is that it does not stand alone in the landscape but occupies the interior of a pre-existing larger mound, with a second large barrow immediately to the west. Three monuments in close proximity, one of them tucked inside another, suggests this corner of Tipperary was treated as a significant place across an extended period of time.

The ring barrow itself is modest in scale: a circular area of roughly six metres in diameter, defined by an earthen bank that reaches just forty centimetres wide at its top and about one and a half metres in overall width. Its height is subtle, rising only fifteen centimetres above the interior on the inner face and around ten centimetres on the outer. The bank is most legible on the south-west to north arc and on the east-south-east section, where the profile, though low, remains consistent. Elsewhere it is barely visible, dissolving into the surrounding pasture. The interior is level, sitting slightly lower than the ground outside the bank, and is clear of overgrowth, which at least makes the form readable underfoot if not always to the eye.