This one in County Limerick announces itself with almost nothing at all. Catalogued as a possible prehistoric barrow, a type of burial mound typically constructed during the Bronze Age to mark the graves of the dead, this site in the townland of Gormanstown offers no visible earthwork, no raised profile, and no surface feature that a passing walker would notice. What makes it worth noting is precisely that absence, and the unusual chain of events that brought it to light in the first place.

The site sits in reclaimed pasture roughly 40 metres south of the Morningstar River, which traces the boundary between townlands in this part of Limerick. It does not appear on any Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps, which means it escaped the attention of the nineteenth-century surveyors who documented so much of the Irish landscape. Its existence as a candidate monument came from a quite different source: aerial photographs taken on 3 November 1984 during a survey conducted by Bórd Gáis Éireann for their gas pipeline project. Examination of that imagery, catalogued as BGE 1/5000 2558, suggested the faint cropmark signature of a ring-barrow, the circular form of which can sometimes be detected from the air even when the ground itself shows nothing. The site was subsequently listed by Grogan in 1989, numbered 'Gormanstown 10' in his survey, though he noted explicitly that there was no surface trace of a ring-barrow in that position. A cluster of other possible barrows lies approximately 170 metres to the west, which lends the general area at least a degree of broader prehistoric plausibility.

For anyone curious enough to seek out the location, the surrounding countryside near the Morningstar River is ordinary working farmland, and there is nothing on the ground to confirm or contradict the aerial evidence. Later Google Earth orthoimages show no surface remains either. The site exists, for now, as a question mark in the record, a place that may once have held a burial mound, or may simply have caught the light at an angle on a November afternoon forty years ago. The honest answer is that nobody yet knows.