This one in Gibbonstown, County Limerick, makes no such effort. It exists, for most practical purposes, only from the air, a circular cropmark roughly eight metres across pressed faintly into reclaimed pasture, visible to satellites but not to anyone walking the field. That is not unusual for a ditch barrow, a burial monument defined by a surrounding circular ditch rather than a raised central mound, which means the structure that once gave it shape has long since been levelled by centuries of farming. What remains is the memory of that ditch, held in the soil, coaxing the grass above it into a slightly different shade of green when conditions are right.

The site was recorded by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded to the national monuments record in July 2021, identified from a Google Earth orthoimage dated 5 April 2006, on which the circular form shows clearly. A later image from September 2019 shows only a faint trace, suggesting the cropmark is not consistently legible and depends on the particular conditions of soil moisture and crop growth at the time of capture. The monument does not appear on Ordnance Survey Ireland historic mapping, which tells us it had already been absorbed into the agricultural landscape before those surveys were made, leaving no visible surface feature for a cartographer to record. A possible related barrow has been catalogued approximately fifty metres to the north-east, under the reference LI040-281, hinting that this corner of the townland may once have held a small concentration of funerary monuments. The site sits in reclaimed pasture about a hundred metres south-east of a watercourse that forms the boundary between Gibbonstown and the neighbouring townland of Bulgaden Eady.

There is nothing to see on the ground. The field gives no indication of what lies beneath it, and there is no public access or signage. The site is of interest primarily to those who follow the archaeology of aerial and remote-sensing survey, or who want to understand how much of the Irish prehistoric landscape survives in this ghostly, subsurface form rather than as anything a casual visitor might recognise. If you do consult the Google Earth record yourself, the April 2006 image is the one worth finding; the later capture from 2019 requires more patience and probably a good deal of faith.