It is the kind of feature that, seen from above, suggests the ghostly outline of something ancient: a ringfort perhaps, or the remains of an enclosure long since ploughed into the surrounding farmland. Except that the story is more ambiguous than that, and the ambiguity is part of what makes it interesting.

A second circular feature sits about sixty metres to the north-east, and a further marking visible on a 1934 Ordnance Survey six-inch map in the same field is thought to be a relict pond, that is, a natural depression left over from earlier landscape conditions, sometimes a remnant of glacial activity. The two circular features may belong to the same category: natural formations rather than anything built or dug by human hands. This matters because the landscape of rural Ireland is full of circular marks that aerial photography picks out with tantalising clarity, and not all of them are archaeological. Distinguishing a genuine enclosure, the kind of low earthen boundary that once defined a farmstead or ceremonial space, from a natural pond hollow worn smooth by centuries of weather and cultivation is not always straightforward from the air alone. The site at Ballymakeagh More sits somewhere in that uncertain territory, recorded but unresolved.