That absence is itself unusual. Ireland's landscape is densely catalogued, and most monuments of any antiquity have at least left a mark in the cartographic record. This one did not, and it might have remained entirely unnoticed had an aerial photographer not flown over at the right moment and in the right light.

The site came to attention through an oblique aerial photograph taken in 2006 as part of the Aerial Survey of Ireland's Archaeological Programme. What the image revealed was a cropmark, the kind of faint but telling discolouration in vegetation that appears when buried features, a ditch, a wall line, a filled pit, affect how grass or crops grow above them. Cropmarks are one of the primary ways previously unrecorded monuments are still being identified across the country. The circular shape visible in the 2006 photograph was later confirmed through Digital Globe and Google Earth orthoimages captured between 2011 and 2013, which showed the monument more clearly as a roughly circular area approximately twenty-five metres in diameter, defined by a fosse. A fosse is simply a ditch, typically cut into the ground to mark a boundary or provide a degree of enclosure, and it is one of the defining features of ringforts and similar enclosed settlements that were common in early medieval Ireland. Whether this earthwork belongs to that tradition or to some other phase of activity in the landscape is not established in the available record. The site was compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded to the record in November 2021.

The site lies in wet pasture, which means the ground underfoot is likely to be soft and uneven for much of the year. There is no formal access, and the earthwork carries no interpretive signage or visitor infrastructure of any kind. The feature is subtle at ground level; the circular form that reads clearly from the air is much harder to distinguish when you are standing in the field itself. Those with a serious interest would do well to study the aerial imagery beforehand, as the fosse is the main thing to look for, tracing its curve through the grass. Drier summer conditions give the best chance of reading the cropmark with the naked eye, though even then patience and a reasonable vantage point are needed.