This one, sitting in wet pasture in the townland of Spittle, Co. Limerick, barely registers at ground level at all. What may be a prehistoric burial mound, a barrow, survives here not as a visible mound but as a faint circular cropmark, the kind of ghostly trace that only becomes legible from the air, when differences in soil moisture and plant growth sketch out what lies beneath. A barrow, in its simplest form, is a mounded earthen grave, typically dating to the Bronze Age, and the fact that this one has almost entirely dissolved back into the landscape makes it, in its way, more intriguing than a well-preserved example.

The site was not recorded on any historical Ordnance Survey Ireland maps, meaning it passed unnoticed through the era of systematic cartographic surveying. It came to light, almost incidentally, through aerial photographs taken on 3 November 1984 as part of the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline survey, reference BGE 1/5000, image 2609, No. 373. Infrastructure projects have a long history of inadvertently generating archaeological discoveries, and this is a modest but genuine example of that pattern. The site sits roughly 140 metres west of the townland boundary with Knockaunnacurraha, and it does not stand alone: a possible barrow lies 40 metres to the north-west, and another sits 60 metres to the east, suggesting this corner of Limerick may once have formed part of a loose funerary landscape, though the relationships between the three features remain unconfirmed. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded to the national monuments database in October 2021.

Visitors should not expect anything conventionally dramatic. The location is wet pasture, and the circular form that betrays the barrow's presence is most clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages, where it appears immediately north of a farm track running north-west to south-east. That track is a useful orientation point if you are studying the aerial imagery before any visit. On the ground, in damp conditions, the subtle rise, if it remains at all, would be easy to miss entirely. The site is on private agricultural land, so any visit would require landowner permission. Its interest lies less in what can be seen than in what the cropmark suggests: a place where people were buried, probably thousands of years ago, that nearly vanished from the record entirely.