It shows no standing stones, no earthen bank, no visible feature at ground level. The only way to see it at all is from above, where a difference in how the grass grows overhead betrays what lies buried beneath. This kind of feature, known as a cropmark, forms when buried ditches or banks affect how deeply plant roots can reach, causing subtle variations in vegetation colour and growth that become legible from altitude, particularly in dry conditions.

The enclosure sits on the demesne lands of Faha House, meaning it occupies ground that would historically have formed the private agricultural estate surrounding a country house. What makes the Faha example interesting is the trace it left in earlier cartography. The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, surveyed around 1840, shows this same spot as a grove of trees, suggesting that some trace of the underlying feature was still influencing the landscape at that point, whether through a surviving earthwork that encouraged planting, or simply through a long-established tradition of leaving the area undisturbed. By the time Caimin O'Brien compiled the record in June 2020, the trees were gone and the surface offered nothing to the eye. It was a Google Earth orthoimage captured on 19 November 2019 that made the circular cropmark clearly visible once more.

There is no formal public access to the site, which lies on private farmland, and nothing to observe from the ground in any case. The aerial photograph appended to the original record is the most useful way to appreciate what is actually there. For those with an interest in how the Irish landscape conceals its archaeology, the broader point is worth sitting with: a feature that disappeared from view, survived as a planted grove for at least part of the nineteenth century, and eventually reappeared only as a faint discolouration in late-autumn grass, photographed from orbit.