This site was first noted during fieldwork for the Archaeological Impact Assessment for the Limerick Southern Ring Road, and identified as a possible barrow. It was subsequently test trenched and found to be of archaeological merit, and was then excavated from December 1999 to February 2000. This excavation was funded by Limerick County Council.

This site proved to be almost perfectly circular, measuring 14.5m north-south by 14.0m, and survived to a maximum height of 0.75m. It was already known from local information that this mound had been partially bulldozed a number of years ago, in an attempt to level the land. However, a sufficient amount of the site survived to discern two distinct phases of activity. It appears that this site originally took the form of a low mound, created from a layer of stone cobbles and capped with a layer of re-deposited clay. This clay was removed in recent years in the above mentioned land improvements, but the cobbled layer survived. A small amount of cremated bone and a quantity of charcoal was recovered from this surface. Removal of this layer of cobbling  exposed a substantial amount of pre-mound activity, in the form of several irregular cut features in the naturally occurring boulder clay. The largest of these measured 3.18m north-south by 4.54m , having a depth of almost 2.00m. An amount of charcoal was recovered from this cut, as was a quantity of animal bone, a piece of flint and portion of a human femur.

A nearby pond, which curved around the site from west to north may have been the source for the original clay capping of the site. Several postholes were discovered around the perimeter of the site, but did not form any discernable pattern.

No enclosing element was uncovered. The available evidence seems to point to this site being the remains of a funerary monument in the barrow tradition.

Three radiocarbon (calibrated sigma 2) dates were attained for the site. This showed that the earliest phase of activity on the site dated from between 1400-990 BC, while charcoal from the cut features produced dates of 930-790 BC and 800-410 BC. This would seem to show that the monument was in use from the mid to late Bronze Age, possibly crossing into the very earliest period of the Iron Age.