The outline of a circular enclosure, roughly forty metres across, survives not as upstanding earthworks but as a cropmark, a ghostly impression that only becomes legible when seen from the air. Cropmarks form when buried features such as ditches or walls affect the growth of crops or grass above them, with ditches often producing darker, lusher growth as the disturbed, moisture-retaining fill supports more vigorous vegetation. What looks like an ordinary field at ground level can, under the right conditions, reveal centuries of hidden structure.

The enclosure was recorded from an aerial photograph taken in July 1970, part of the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography. The feature photographed was the cropmark of a fosse, the defensive or boundary ditch that would originally have surrounded the enclosure, suggesting a site of some antiquity, possibly a ringfort or an earlier ceremonial enclosure. Ringforts, which are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, were typically built between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries as enclosed farmsteads, their circular ditches and banks marking out a domestic or agricultural space. What makes this particular site quietly interesting is its company. Roughly eighty metres to the south-east lies a ring-ditch, a related but distinct monument type often associated with prehistoric burial activity, and approximately two hundred and fifty metres further in the same direction sits a possible rectangular enclosure. Three separate features, spanning potentially very different periods of use, all clustering within a single field.