It is eight metres wide, modest enough that a walker crossing the field might not register it as anything other than a slight unevenness in the ground. Yet it does not appear on any historic Ordnance Survey Ireland maps, meaning it slipped through the standard documentary record entirely, leaving no paper trace of what it once was or why it was built.

The earthwork was first identified as a cursus during an aerial photographic survey centred on Bruff in 1986, recorded as Bruff 83 (AP 4/3624). A cursus is a type of long, rectangular enclosure defined by parallel banks and ditches, generally associated with Neolithic ceremonial activity, though the term is sometimes applied loosely to linear earthworks whose function remains unclear. Later orthophotography taken between 2005 and 2012 confirmed the raised linear form and its curving south-eastern extension. A Google Earth image dated November 2018 added a further complication: the north-western end of the monument is intersected by what appears to be a palaeochannel, an old watercourse that has since shifted or dried up, running north-west to south-east across the feature. The earthwork itself sits about 30 metres north of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Rahard, and roughly 50 metres west of a second watercourse. A ring-barrow, a low circular burial mound defined by a bank and internal ditch, lies 200 metres to the north-east. Given all of this, the monument may not be a ceremonial cursus at all, but rather a raised trackway that once connected one watercourse with an enclosure nearby. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in April 2021.

The site sits in working agricultural pasture, so access would require landowner permission. There is nothing here that announces itself dramatically; what you are looking for is a subtle elongated rise in the ground, easier to read in low winter light when shadows pick out slight changes in relief. The nearby watercourses that bracket the monument are worth locating as reference points, and knowing that the curving extension bends away to the south at the south-eastern end helps orient the eye once you are standing in the field.