It sits in reclaimed pasture, absorbed into the working landscape of enclosed fields, and its physical presence is so modest that without prior knowledge you could walk past it without a second glance. What survives is a roughly circular platform, measuring approximately 4.5 metres north to south and 5 metres east to west, defined by a shallow surrounding ditch, known as a fosse, and a low enclosing bank that rises only 15 to 17 centimetres above the surrounding ground. Ring barrows of this kind are prehistoric funerary monuments, typically consisting of a central burial area enclosed by a circular bank and ditch, and they are found across Ireland in varying states of preservation. This one belongs firmly to the fainter end of that spectrum.

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland visited and recorded the site in 2007, giving it formal recognition despite its absence from mapping. What makes its setting particularly interesting is that it is not an isolated monument. It forms the northernmost example in a cluster of fourteen barrows concentrated across the southern half of Derk townland, with the nearest neighbour sitting just 12 metres to the north-northwest. The fields around it are bounded by drainage ditches connected to the estate of Derk House, located some 600 metres to the northeast, and one linear depression running north to south about 30 metres to the east is part of that same drainage network. The monument lies roughly 200 metres southeast of a stream marking the townland boundary with Knockderk, and about 600 metres east of the hill summit, which reaches 781 feet above sea level. Despite the agricultural reshaping of the surrounding land, the barrow survived, and it is visible as a faint cropmark on Ordnance Survey orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012, as well as on a Google Earth image from November 2018.

For anyone with a serious interest in the site, the practical reality is that it sits within private agricultural land and is not signposted or publicly accessible in any formal sense. The surrounding field system, shaped by drainage ditches, means the ground can be soft and indistinct underfoot. The cropmark visibility noted in aerial photography suggests late summer or dry spells offer the clearest impression of the monument from above, though at ground level the low bank and shallow fosse demand close attention to read the landscape at all. The broader cluster of barrows across the townland makes this a significant concentration in the regional archaeological record, even if each individual monument is, by its nature, quiet about what it once marked.