There is no mound, no marker, no trace on the nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps. The only reason we know this site exists at all is that a gas pipeline cut through it in 1986, and the machinery happened to skim away just enough topsoil to expose what had been quietly waiting underground for several thousand years.

A ring-barrow, in its simplest form, is a burial monument defined by a circular ditch rather than a raised earthen mound, the ditch itself sometimes representing the memory of material that was piled elsewhere or has long since levelled off. When archaeologist Eoin Grogan excavated the site, designated TR/2/16/2, on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick pipeline corridor, he found a central ring-ditch roughly 7 metres in diameter, gapped at two points and nowhere more than 56 centimetres wide or 40 centimetres deep. That inner ditch sat within a larger enclosure ditch, oval or circular, approximately 20 metres across, which appeared to be a contemporary feature rather than a later addition. The results were published by Gowen in 1988. Within this outer enclosure, excavators found eight pits, twenty-two post and stake holes, and a hearth pit packed with charcoal, heat-shattered stones, and ten sherds of coarse, undecorated pottery. One of the pits contained a substantial portion of a single undecorated pot. Fragments of burnt bone came from the outer ditch fill, too degraded to identify. The post holes formed no pattern that could be read as a structure. The excavation report concluded that the hearth, while possibly pointing to some domestic use, was most likely secondary to the site's broader ritual function.

There is nothing to see here now. Satellite imagery taken between 2011 and 2013 shows no surface trace, and more recent Google Earth imagery confirms the same. The site sits in agricultural land, returned to pasture after the pipeline work, and was never marked on the six-inch Ordnance Survey maps that recorded so much of the Irish landscape in the nineteenth century. For anyone with an interest in pipeline archaeology or the quieter corners of Bronze Age Limerick, the published excavation report in Gowen's 1988 volume remains the most direct route in. The place itself offers only grass.