No earthwork survives, no stone protrudes, and the ground gives nothing away. The only evidence that anything was ever here is a circular cropmark, visible in a single aerial photograph taken in 1973.

Cropmarks form when buried features, walls, ditches, or the filled remains of older structures, affect the growth of crops or grass above them. Buried ditches, for instance, retain more moisture and produce lusher, taller vegetation, while buried stone foundations starve roots and leave paler, thinner growth. From the air, these differences in colour and height can resolve into recognisable shapes: in this case, a circle, the characteristic outline of an early Irish enclosure. Such enclosures were once an ordinary feature of the Irish countryside, serving as farmsteads, settlements, or places of ritual significance across many centuries. This one sat on a break in an east-facing slope in undulating pastureland, and at some point the field boundaries to the west and south of the former site were removed, part of a process of agricultural reclamation that erased the physical remains altogether.

What the 1973 photograph captured was, in a sense, a last trace. The conditions that produced a legible cropmark on that particular day, in that particular season, may never have repeated themselves in the same way, and nothing is visible at ground level today.