Beneath the crop, the buried outline of a circular enclosure survives only as a cropmark, a phenomenon where buried ditches or banks cause the vegetation above them to grow at a slightly different rate, making the shape visible from the air even when nothing whatsoever can be seen at ground level. Neither the first Ordnance Survey edition of 1840 nor the revised maps of 1904 to 1905 show any trace of it, which suggests it had already been levelled long before either survey was made.

The enclosure was identified on aerial photographs taken on 3 August 1996, its circular outline emerging from the crop in a way that betrayed its presence to anyone looking from above. A second, sub-rectangular enclosure lies roughly thirty metres to the north, also visible only on aerial photographs, hinting that this patch of undulating Tipperary farmland was once a more complex site than its present emptiness suggests. A field boundary that cut directly across the circular enclosure, probably established after the original monument had been flattened, was itself removed some years ago and also shows up as a cropmark, adding a further layer of erasure to the history of the place. What makes this site particularly interesting is the complete absence of any local memory attaching to it. No tradition of a fort, a rath, or any other structure is associated with this field, which is unusual in a country where earthworks of all kinds tend to accumulate folklore even centuries after their physical disappearance. Roughly fifteen kilometres to the south-south-west, the tower house at Ballindoney is visible on the horizon, a late medieval fortified residence of a type built by Gaelic and Anglo-Norman lords alike, offering a distant but tangible reference point for the landscape these sites once shared.