The one at Baunmore, in Co. Kilkenny, does the opposite. It sits at one of the lowest points in the surrounding terrain, just below a gravel ridge, in open grassland that offers nothing of the drama usually associated with prehistoric monument-building. That deliberate, or at least conspicuous, choice of a low-lying setting gives the site a quietly unusual quality.

What remains is a mound of earth and stone, roughly 9.5 metres north to south and 6 metres east to west, its eastern end still standing at around 1.2 metres while the western end has been reduced to almost nothing, only about 0.1 metres above ground level. A number of large boulders cover the mound, and at least some of these appear to be original, still in the positions they occupied when the structure was built. Megalithic tombs of this kind, built during the Neolithic period, were typically raised as collective burial monuments, the large stones forming chambers or a cairn structure intended to last. At Baunmore, the southern portion of the mound has been partially truncated, meaning it has been cut into or reduced over time, whether by agriculture, land clearance, or simple erosion. The asymmetry that results, much higher at one end than the other, gives the monument an uneven, slightly compressed profile when viewed across the field.