The only way to see it is from above, and even then only under the right conditions, when variations in soil moisture and crop growth betray the buried feature as a faint ring impressed on the landscape. This kind of cropmark appears when buried ditches or pits retain more moisture than the surrounding soil, causing the crops above them to grow taller or ripen at a slightly different rate. From the air, or on aerial imagery, the contrast becomes legible in a way that ground-level inspection simply cannot reveal.

The site at Ballyboghil was identified from Apple Maps aerial imagery, where the cropmark of a circular-shaped area approximately ten metres in diameter is visible in a tillage field. A ring-ditch of this kind is generally understood to be the remains of a burial monument, most likely a levelled round barrow or similar funerary enclosure, where the upstanding earthwork has long since been ploughed away, leaving only the cut of the original ditch as a ghost in the subsoil. The field lies to the north of a previously recorded cropmark site, given the reference DU007-081, which suggests this part of Ballyboghil contains more than one episode of past activity. The record was compiled by Caimin O'Brien on the basis of details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère, and uploaded in December 2022, making this a recent addition to the archaeological record rather than a long-established entry.

There is nothing to see at ground level, which is precisely what makes the site interesting as a category of evidence. The field is under tillage, meaning access would be a matter for the landowner, and there is no monument or marker of any kind. The cropmark is most legible in aerial imagery captured during dry summer conditions, when moisture stress in the crops amplifies the contrast between the buried ditch and the undisturbed subsoil around it. Anyone curious enough to look should start with Apple Maps satellite view and locate the tillage fields north of Ballyboghil village. The ring, faint but coherent, is there if you know what you are looking for.