It does not appear on any Ordnance Survey historic map. Satellite imagery from multiple providers, captured across nearly a decade, shows nothing. On the ground, you would almost certainly walk straight over it without pausing. The only reason anyone knows it is there at all is a brief window of visibility recorded from the air in 1986, when conditions conspired to reveal what lies beneath the grass.

The earthwork was identified during the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986, recorded as survey image 210. From the air, it appeared as a roughly oblong-shaped cropmark, the kind of faint discolouration in growing crops or stressed vegetation that betrays subsurface features to a trained eye. Cropmarks form when buried structures, whether walls, ditches, or pits, affect how plants above them grow, producing subtle differences in colour or height that are invisible at ground level but legible from altitude, particularly in dry summers when soil moisture variations are exaggerated. The monument sits in improved wet pasture cut through by land drains and watercourses, and it appears to have been further disturbed by a drain ditch running across its southern edge, truncating whatever the original form once was. A related enclosure is recorded approximately 175 metres to the south-east. The site lies 330 metres east of the townland boundary with Ballydaheen, placing it in a landscape that has been heavily modified by agricultural improvement over the centuries, which likely explains why no trace survives in any cartographic or more recent photographic record.

For anyone curious enough to visit, the land is wet working pasture and there is no surface feature to locate. The site is not signposted and would require landowner permission to access. The surrounding area of south County Limerick does, however, reward exploration: the broader Bruff survey territory contains a number of recorded enclosures and earthworks, some more visible than others, and the archaeology of the region is quietly dense. The 1986 aerial image, referenced as Bruff 210, remains the primary record of this particular monument, compiled formally by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly and uploaded to the national record in November 2020.