No earthwork, no stone, no hollow in the ground betrays it. The only evidence that something was once here is a pattern in a crop, photographed from the air more than half a century ago.

Cropmarks form when buried features, such as the filled ditches of old enclosures, affect the growth of crops above them. Ditches retain moisture and nutrients, causing plants to grow taller and greener; compacted foundations do the opposite, stunting growth. From the ground, nothing looks out of the ordinary. From the air in the right conditions, the buried landscape becomes briefly legible. In this case, a Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography flight in July 1970, referenced as BDR 84, captured the outline of what has been interpreted as an ecclesiastical enclosure on a gentle east-facing slope in undulating pasture. The circular or curvilinear boundaries that typically define early Irish church sites, often enclosing a small community of monks or anchorites along with their church, cemetery, and outbuildings, showed themselves that summer in the crop and were recorded on film. The field has since been reclaimed, a process of drainage and ploughing that erases surviving earthworks and further compresses whatever subsurface traces remain.