A ring-barrow, a type of low circular burial mound typically dating to the Bronze Age and enclosed by a surrounding ditch or bank, sits in improved agricultural pasture, its outline so faint that it never made it onto any Ordnance Survey Ireland historic map. For most of the twentieth century, it was simply a field.

It took an aerial photographic survey in 1986 to bring it to light. The Bruff survey, referencing image Bruff 115.03, identified the feature as a ring-barrow, the most northerly of a concentration of four possible barrows in the area, all running in a NW-SE line. The others carry the site references LI033-053002 through to LI033-053005. The site lies approximately 65 metres west of the road that forms the townland boundary between Cromwell and Garryncahera, placing it in that particular category of monument that occupies a boundary zone, between parishes, between named lands, and apparently between legibility and invisibility. Subsequent orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012, along with Google Earth imagery, have shown faint traces of a possible cropmark immediately north of a drainage channel running NW-SE across the area. Cropmarks appear when buried features affect how crops or grass grow above them, producing subtle colour or texture differences that become readable from altitude. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in April 2021.

This is not a site with a tidy path to it or an interpretive panel waiting at the gate. It sits on private improved pasture, meaning the ground has been worked and levelled for grazing over many decades, which is precisely why the barrow is so faint. The best way to appreciate what survives is through the aerial and satellite images linked in the national record, where the cropmark traces, though subtle, are easier to read than anything you might perceive standing in the field itself. Those visiting the wider Cromwell Hill area should be aware that access to agricultural land requires landowner permission, and that the monument itself offers very little to the naked eye at ground level, particularly outside the drier summer months when cropmarks are most likely to show.