It was not discovered by an archaeologist walking the land or by a local farmer who happened to notice an odd rise in the turf. It was spotted from space, or near enough: identified on commercial satellite imagery by Jean-Charles Caillère, who was scanning Google Earth photographs taken in March 2014.

The enclosure lies to the north-west of an esker ridge, a long gravel and sand formation left behind by meltwater channels running beneath glaciers during the last Ice Age. These ridges are a distinctive feature of the Irish midlands, and their margins have long attracted human settlement, offering well-drained ground in an otherwise wet landscape. The enclosure itself is subtriangular in plan, measuring approximately fifty-two metres east to west and fifty metres north to south, narrowing to around twenty-two metres at its eastern end. A dried-up pond sits roughly forty-five metres to the south-east, its presence hinting at a landscape that may once have been wetter and more varied than the uniform pastureland visible today. The combination of the esker edge, the enclosure, and the vanished pond suggests a deliberate choice of location, though what the enclosure was built for, and by whom, remains unknown. Enclosures of this kind can date to almost any period of Irish prehistory or early history, and without excavation or surface survey, the ground holds its silence.