It cannot be seen from ground level, and the vegetation to its immediate west has grown so dense as to be effectively impassable. The monument exists in the record more confidently than it does in the landscape.

What is likely buried here is a cist, a type of small stone-lined burial box used during the Bronze Age to inter the dead, sometimes accompanied by pottery or personal objects. The site does not appear on any Ordnance Survey historic mapping, which makes its paper trail all the more curious: it was recorded in the OS Name Book in 1917, under Form 230, a detail that came to light through a communication with Paul Walsh in October 1991. The elevated rocky outcrop on which it sits overlooks a low-lying, poorly drained area to the north, the kind of marginal wetland ground that often formed a meaningful boundary in the prehistoric mind, separating the settled from the waterlogged and uncertain.

For anyone who does make their way to this corner of Clare, the site sits within undulating pasture on a raised rocky area thick with scrub. The monument is not visible at ground level, and the thicket to the west offers little encouragement to press further. It is, in the most literal sense, a place that keeps itself to itself.