Somewhere in the rough pasture of Ballyshonock, in County Waterford, lies an enclosure that has essentially vanished from the landscape while remaining on the map. Roughly subcircular in shape, measuring approximately 45 metres north to south and 40 metres east to west, it is the kind of site that rewards a careful reading of old cartography far more than a walk across the field itself. At ground level, there is simply nothing obvious to see.

The enclosure was recorded on the 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which means that by the time the OS surveyors passed through, it was already sufficiently legible in the landscape to be worth noting. What they captured, however, appears to have been fading even then. Today, the perimeter earthwork has likely been absorbed into the field boundaries around it; the western side in particular may survive as part of a field bank, its original purpose entirely obscured by later agricultural use. Embanked enclosures of this general type are associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, typically serving as enclosures for farmsteads or ecclesiastical sites, though without excavation it is impossible to say what function this particular example once served.

There is little a visitor could usefully do at this site beyond standing in a field of rough pasture and knowing, from the map, that something once occupied the ground beneath them. The 1840 OS six-inch map remains the clearest record of what was there, and even that shows only a shape, not a story.