This one in Gormanstown, County Limerick, has no surface presence whatsoever, and yet it appears in the record as a possible enclosure, visible only once, briefly, from the air. No ridge, no hollow, no trace in the pasture gives it away to anyone walking the ground today.

The site was identified during the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986, catalogued as Bruff 140, reference AP 5/2105. What the survey captured was a cropmark, the kind of subtle discolouration in vegetation that can reveal buried features when soil moisture varies across disturbed or compacted ground, making ancient ditches or banks faintly legible from altitude even when invisible at eye level. The feature was interpreted as a possible enclosure, though the classification remains tentative. It sits in pasture roughly twelve metres west of the townland boundary with Bottomstown, and a separate possible ditch-barrow, a circular earthwork defined by a surrounding ditch rather than a mound, lies approximately fifty metres to the north-west. Neither feature was ever marked on Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps, meaning the 1986 aerial survey represents the only recorded moment of visibility for either. By the time Digital Globe orthoimage coverage was taken between 2011 and 2013, and in later Google Earth imagery, no surface remains were detectable at all.

There is, practically speaking, nothing to see here in any conventional sense, and the site sits on private pastureland with no public access infrastructure. Its interest lies precisely in that absence. For anyone following the archaeology of the Bruff survey area or researching the wider landscape around Gormanstown and Bottomstown, the record compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded in July 2021 is the most useful starting point. The cropmark image itself, attached to that record, is the closest thing to a portrait this enclosure has ever had.