No mound breaks the surface, no kerb stones catch the light at a low angle, and no depression marks where something once stood. The only sign that anything lies beneath the pasture at all is, according to local knowledge, a change in the quality of the grass in spring, when a faint difference in growth betrays the outline of what was once a ring barrow, a type of Bronze Age funerary monument consisting of a circular earthen mound enclosed within a ditch and outer bank.

By the time Bowman recorded the site in 1934, the damage was already done. The tumulus, as he called it, had been completely levelled. He was still able to estimate its original dimensions from whatever traces remained, noting an outer enclosure of roughly 39 feet in diameter and a mound base of around 27 feet across. The barrow sat approximately 30 metres south-west of a stone row, a close proximity that suggests the two monuments may have been part of a related ritual landscape, as such groupings are not unusual in the Cork uplands. The stone row itself survives, which makes the loss of its neighbouring burial monument all the more pointed.

In spring, when the grass is growing, the footprint of the barrow is said to become briefly legible as a subtle variation in the sward. It is the kind of detail that rewards those who already know to look for it, and who are willing to read a field as a document rather than simply as ground.