It only becomes legible from above. A circular cropmark roughly twenty metres in diameter, picked out by differential growth in the vegetation, appeared on Digital Globe orthophotography taken between 2011 and 2013, revealing the ghostly outline of what was once an enclosed space, buried and invisible at ground level for who knows how long.

Cropmarks form when buried features, walls, ditches, or pits alter how moisture moves through the soil above them, causing the grass or crops overhead to grow at slightly different rates or shades. In dry conditions particularly, these differences become visible from aerial survey, and what looks like an ordinary pasture reveals a hidden geometry. The record was compiled by archaeologist Caimin O'Brien and uploaded in June 2020. The enclosure sits in pasture to the north of a stream that marks the townland boundary between Cappanafaraha and Lotteragh Lower, a boundary line that likely has its own long history. Perhaps more telling is what lies eighty metres to the south-southwest: a ringfort, recorded as LI039-096. Ringforts, which are circular enclosures typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, used as farmsteads between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. The proximity of the two features raises the obvious question of whether they are related, though the record makes no firm claim on that point.

Accessing the site requires knowing where to look, since there is nothing at ground level to mark it out. The enclosure lies in private farmland, and any visit would depend on landowner permission. The stream forming the townland boundary is perhaps the most useful landmark for orientating yourself in the landscape. The ringfort to the south-southwest is the more visible of the two features and may help with orientation if you can locate it. The cropmark itself would only have been visible to someone directly overhead during the right conditions, so a visitor on foot is essentially trusting the coordinates and the record. What the site offers, then, is less a spectacle than a prompt to look differently at ordinary-seeming fields, and to consider how much of the Irish landscape holds its history just below the surface of things.