It was not surveyed on the ground, not recorded in the usual way, and leaves almost nothing to see at eye level. Its existence is known almost entirely because someone looked down at it from the air.

Aerial photography identified a semi-circular enclosure roughly twenty metres in diameter, its northern side defined by a linear field boundary that may have been absorbed into later agricultural use. Enclosures of this kind, typically circular or near-circular earthworks once used to define a settlement, a farmstead, or a place of ritual activity, are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, yet vast numbers remain unexcavated and poorly understood. This one sits at a particularly tentative end of that spectrum. No definite structural remains survive at ground level, and the site has never been confirmed by physical investigation. What aerial survey captured was the faint logic of the landscape itself, a south-facing hillside where the soil and vegetation had quietly arranged themselves into a pattern.

The most that can be said with any confidence is that a subtle arc of slightly drier vegetation traces the probable outline of the enclosure. Drier vegetation of this kind often signals a buried wall or bank beneath, where compacted or stony sub-surface material reduces moisture retention enough to register as a difference in plant growth during dry spells. It is the kind of evidence that disappears in a wet summer and reappears in a dry one, a site that exists, in a practical sense, only under the right conditions and only if you already know where to look.