It does not appear on any Ordnance Survey historic maps, and for much of its existence it seems to have been passed over entirely, unremarked upon by the cartographers who recorded so much else in the surrounding landscape. A bowl-barrow, to give the term some context, is a type of Bronze Age funerary monument: a low, rounded earthen mound, typically encircled by a ditch known as a fosse, and generally associated with the burial of the dead. They are found across Britain and Ireland, often in prominent positions, though this one occupies particularly modest ground.

The monument came to light not through excavation or a chance find, but through the air. The Bruff aerial photographic survey of 1986 picked it out, catalogued under reference Bruff 225, and what the camera revealed was a roughly circular platform defined by its surrounding fosse, measuring approximately 21 metres north to south and 20 metres east to west. Subsequent aerial and satellite imagery confirmed the picture: the feature is visible on Ordnance Survey orthoimagery taken between 2005 and 2012, on Digital Globe imagery from 2011 to 2013, and on a Google Earth image captured on 4 April 2013. An ASI aerial photograph, taken on 5 January 2003 and referenced as ASIAP 348/11 and 12, adds further documentation. The site was compiled by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly and uploaded to the record in November 2020.

The barrow sits on low-lying wet pasture on the floodplain of the Camoge River, which runs approximately 170 metres to the west and marks the townland boundary between Gortacloona and Ragamus. The ground conditions matter here: floodplain pasture of this kind tends to be soft and seasonally saturated, which makes visiting in winter or after prolonged rain a muddy proposition. The monument is not signposted, and given that it was invisible to ground-level observers for long enough to be left off all historic maps, visitors should not expect an obvious or dramatic feature on arrival. What is there is subtle, a low platform and the ghost of a surrounding ditch, best appreciated by standing back and letting the slight rise in the field speak for itself.