The enclosure at Burges is visible only from the air, and only under the right conditions: it survives as a cropmark, the kind of ghostly trace that appears when buried features cause the plants growing above them to ripen or wither at slightly different rates to the surrounding crop. From the ground, there is nothing to indicate that anything lies beneath the soil.

The enclosure was identified on aerial photography, where it reads as a circular mark suggestive of a former boundary, a ditch or bank long since levelled and buried under centuries of agricultural activity. What makes it more than an isolated curiosity is the suggestion that it forms part of a wider, possible field system in the same area. Enclosed sites of this kind in Ireland can range from prehistoric farmsteads to early medieval ringforts, though without excavation it is impossible to assign this particular feature a period or function with any confidence. The undulating terrain around it, now under tillage, has quietly absorbed whatever structures once defined this landscape.