It is not marked by any standing stone or interpretive sign, and to walk past it on the canal towpath you would likely notice nothing at all. The feature is a ring-ditch, a type of monument that survives here only as a circular depression or low earthwork, its original form long since flattened by centuries of agriculture. Archaeologists interpret it as a levelled barrow, meaning the burial mound that once rose from its centre has been ploughed or worn away, leaving only the encircling ditch as evidence that something once stood here.

The monument was not identified through fieldwork in the conventional sense. Jean-Charles Caillère spotted it by examining Google Earth satellite imagery, and the find was recorded on 7 May 2019, with the entry compiled by Margaret Keane. That a prehistoric funerary monument could go unrecorded until satellite imagery became widely available, in an area so close to the suburban sprawl of Dublin, says something about how much of the Irish archaeological landscape remains imperfectly mapped. Ring-ditches of this kind are generally associated with Bronze Age burial traditions, when the dead were interred beneath earthen mounds surrounded by a defining ditch. Over time, particularly on low-lying and cultivated land, the mounds disappear while the ditches, cut deeper into the subsoil, leave a crop-mark or soil-mark visible from the air or, as here, from space.

The site lies in flat terrain with views restricted to surrounding fields, directly alongside the Royal Canal, which itself dates from the late eighteenth century and runs westward from Dublin city. The canal towpath offers a straightforward approach on foot or by bicycle. On the ground, there is little to see without knowing exactly where to look; the ring-ditch is subtle rather than dramatic, and the surrounding field is private agricultural land. The best conditions for making out any surface trace would be during dry spells in summer, when differential growth in grass or crops can betray the buried ditch beneath. Visitors with an interest in aerial archaeology or who use satellite map applications may find it easier to appreciate the monument in plan view before visiting, to understand what they are looking at once they arrive.