It sits 165 metres north of the townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown East, waterlogged and faintly outlined in the grass, and it did not appear on any Ordnance Survey historic maps at all. Whether it is a relic of early medieval settlement or simply a very old pond is, at the time of writing, an open question.

The site came to light not through any planned excavation or local folklore, but through aerial photography commissioned for an entirely unrelated purpose. In November 1984, Bórd Gáis Éireann was surveying the route of the Curraleigh West to Limerick gas pipeline, and photographs taken at a scale of 1:5000 picked out what appeared to be a partially levelled ringfort, the kind of roughly circular earthen enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period, that once served as a farmstead or defended homestead across rural Ireland. A functioning ringfort of that type already exists just 100 metres to the north, which lends some weight to the idea that this southern feature could be a second, related monument. A spring well is marked immediately to the west of the site on the 1897 edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, adding another layer of ambiguity: springs were commonly associated with both settlement and with ponds, so its presence neither confirms nor rules out either interpretation. By the time satellite imagery was available, a post-1700 field boundary running east to west had clipped the southern edge of the circular shape, complicating any reading of its original extent. The outline remained visible on Google Earth as recently as August 2021.

The site sits on private agricultural land and there is no formal public access. It is the kind of place that rewards those who approach Irish archaeology through maps and satellite imagery rather than through physical visits: the Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011 and 2013 shows the waterlogged circle clearly enough to appreciate its form, and the Google Earth image from August 2021 offers a more recent view of how little it has changed. For anyone researching the surrounding area, the confirmed ringfort 100 metres to the north, recorded as LI049-017, is the more legible of the two features and provides useful comparative context. The unresolved status of this earthwork is itself part of what makes it worth noting; it is a reminder that the Irish landscape holds features that remain genuinely uncertain even after decades of aerial survey and digital analysis.