A ring-barrow is a type of prehistoric funerary monument, essentially a low circular mound enclosed by a surrounding ditch or bank, and this one near Friarstown managed to escape the notice of Ordnance Survey cartographers entirely. It appears on no historic maps. What revealed it, eventually, was the land itself: the buried earthwork influencing the way crops grow above it, producing what archaeologists call a cropmark, a faint circular signature readable only from the air.

The monument first came to official attention in 1986, when the Bruff aerial photographic survey captured it as a circular-shaped cropmark, recorded under survey reference Bruff 13401: AP 4/3656. Decades later, aerial orthophotos taken by Ordnance Survey Ireland between 2005 and 2012 showed it as a circular earthwork roughly fifteen metres in diameter. Later satellite imagery, including Digital Globe images from 2011 to 2013 and a Google Earth capture from March 2017, recorded it as a slightly oblong shape, suggesting some distortion over the centuries. The barrow sits on improved wet pasture, about ten metres east of a land drain and close to a small forestry plot. A second ring-barrow, catalogued separately as LI023-243, lies only fourteen metres to the east, hinting that this corner of the Camoge River valley may once have held some significance for the communities who buried their dead here.

The site sits roughly two hundred metres west of the Friarstown townland boundary and about two hundred and thirty metres north of the Camoge River. Access follows a farm trackway that runs approximately fifteen metres to the north of the monument, though this is working agricultural land and visitors should be mindful of that. Because the earthwork is low and the ground is wet pasture, the monument is subtle on the ground and far more legible from aerial images than from the field edge. The companion barrow to the east, at just fourteen metres away, is close enough that both may once have formed part of a small funerary grouping, though only the view from above makes that relationship fully clear.