One is a circular feature roughly fourteen metres across; the other, about fifty metres to the south-west, is slightly larger and ovoid, measuring around eighteen metres north to south and twelve metres east to west. Neither announces itself dramatically. They are simply there, quiet irregularities in the ground, the kind of thing that becomes visible only when the light falls at a low angle or when you know to look.

Features like these, picked out in a pasture field on historic demesne land, are typically the earthwork remains of early enclosures. In Irish archaeology, an enclosure of this scale and shape is often associated with a ringfort or a related form of enclosed settlement, a type of site that was in use from roughly the early medieval period onward and is found in considerable numbers across Munster. A ringfort, to give the simplest definition, was a farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks, sometimes with an accompanying ditch, and these remains tend to survive best in permanent pasture where the plough has never reached. The proximity of a named castle demesne adds another layer, since such estates frequently incorporated or overlay earlier occupation sites. The two features here were identified and recorded by Matt Kelleher, using digital globe imaging accessed in June 2023, and have been logged accordingly.

Because the site sits within private pasture on demesne land, access is not guaranteed and permission from the landowner would be appropriate before visiting. The features are not marked on standard tourist maps and there is no signage. The best chance of seeing them from any distance is in low winter sun or during a dry summer spell when differential growth in the grass can trace out buried features. If you do get close, what you are looking at is a slight rise or depression in the ground surface, perhaps three or four metres wide at the bank line, circular in one case and gently elongated in the other. The fifty-metre gap between them raises its own quiet questions about sequence, function, and how long people worked this particular patch of Limerick farmland before it became a demesne at all.