They are easy to miss, partly because the landscape has been steadily reshaped around them, and partly because at least one of the mounds has become so reduced that it had already disappeared from satellite imagery between 2005 and 2013. What remains is a group of probable barrows, the word referring to ancient burial mounds, prehistoric in character though their precise date has not been established, arranged in a configuration that only reveals itself fully from the air or through technology the original builders could scarcely have imagined.

The site came into clearer focus during a 2012 LiDAR survey, a technique that uses laser pulses fired from aircraft to detect subtle changes in ground elevation invisible to ordinary observation, carried out by Ella Motherway. That survey identified five mounds in total, recorded collectively as feature G01F003. Four of them, designated LI022-258, 259, 260, and 261, are visible on Ordnance Survey Ireland orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012. Three of those four appear to be roughly aligned along a northwest to southeast axis, while the fourth sits directly north of one of the others. The fifth mound, the one west of the Camoge's original watercourse, was already barely legible on those same aerial photographs and had vanished entirely from Digital Globe images taken between 2011 and 2013. A post-1700 drainage channel to the west of the site, itself now only detectable as a cropmark on aerial photographs and on the revised edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map, speaks to how thoroughly this waterlogged land has been worked and rewired since the mounds were raised.

The site lies on poorly drained, partially reclaimed pasture, with the Camoge River still running north to south immediately to the east. Visiting in summer, when vegetation is low and the ground is drier, gives the best chance of reading the mounds as earthworks rather than simply as slightly uneven grazing land. The remains are subtle; this is not a site that announces itself. Anyone with an interest in the archaeology will find that consulting the LiDAR plot published by Motherway in 2012, figure 5.2, page 77, offers a clearer sense of the spatial relationship between the mounds than anything visible on the ground.