A cropmark, the kind that appears when buried ditches or banks cause overlying grass or crops to grow differently from the surrounding vegetation, betrays the outline of what may once have been an enclosure of some kind. The difference in colour and growth rate is subtle enough that only aerial photography, taken under the right conditions, can make it out at all.

The mark was recorded from photographs taken in July 2006 by M. Moore, and it remains a tentative identification rather than a confirmed site. Cropmarks of this kind can indicate anything from a prehistoric ring-ditch or ringfort to a more recent field boundary long since levelled, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say more. What is certain is that beneath the ordinary surface of a Wicklow pasture, the soil retains the memory of some earlier arrangement of the land, patient and faint, waiting on the right angle of light and the right dry summer to make itself known again.