It exists now chiefly as an absence, a circular shadow pressed into the grass, legible only from the air and only under the right conditions.

The feature was first recorded in 1965, when an aerial photograph taken as part of the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography captured a cropmark, the faint but distinct outline of a roughly circular form in the pasture below. Cropmarks appear when buried features, walls, ditches, or banks, affect the growth of vegetation above them, producing subtle differences in colour or height that become visible from altitude, particularly in dry summers when the contrast is sharpest. The circular shape is consistent with a ringfort or enclosure of the kind that dots the Irish countryside in considerable numbers, though without excavation its age and function remain open questions. When the site was visited on the ground in 2000, nothing at all was visible. The terrain is relatively level, the land long given over to pasture, and whatever earthwork once defined this place has either been levelled by centuries of agricultural use or was never substantial enough to leave a lasting impression above the soil.