This kind of pairing is not unusual in the Irish prehistoric landscape, but it is easy to walk past without registering what you are looking at.

A ring barrow is a low, circular earthwork of prehistoric date, typically consisting of a central mound or platform enclosed by a ditch and an outer bank, used for burial or ritual commemoration. At Moanmore, the smaller of the two is modest by any measure: a circular area just four metres in diameter, defined by an earthen scarp and a shallow fosse, which is the ditch running around the interior platform, with an external bank beyond that. The bank is narrow at the top and low in profile throughout. What makes the arrangement particularly legible, despite its age, is that the interior is clear of overgrowth and slopes gently eastward, following the natural lie of the ground. On the western side, the outer bank disappears altogether between south-west and north-west, precisely where an old field boundary once ran. That boundary has since been removed, but its former presence has left a permanent gap in the monument's outer ring, a quiet record of agricultural reorganisation cutting across something far older.