It is easy to walk past without registering what it is. The proportions are modest, the surface level and unremarkable to the casual eye, yet the ground holds the logic of a ring-barrow, one of the quieter categories of prehistoric funerary monument found across Ireland.

A ring-barrow is essentially a low burial mound, or the remnant of one, defined by a surrounding ditch rather than by height. Here, that ditch, known as a fosse, runs from the south-southeast around through west to north, with a basal width of around 0.4 metres and an overall width of 1.55 metres, cut to a depth of 0.25 metres. The remains of a levelled scarp, a low earthen bank once raised above the ditch, survive on the northeast to south-southeast arc, now reduced to a width of 0.8 metres and a height of just 0.1 metres. The feature does not sit in isolation: a second ring-barrow lies to the northeast, suggesting that this corner of Tipperary was once treated as a place worth returning to, generation after generation, for the purposes of the dead.