What appears to be a circular enclosure roughly thirty metres in diameter shows up as a soil mark in aerial photography, the kind of subtle discolouration that occurs when buried features alter the moisture content or chemistry of the soil above them, causing overlying crops or grasses to grow slightly differently. Without that aerial vantage point, there is nothing to see at all.

The site was identified through the work of Dr. D.D.C. Pochin Mould, whose aerial photographic survey brought a number of otherwise undetectable features to light across the Cork landscape. Circular enclosures of this kind are common throughout Ireland and often represent the remains of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead used primarily during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Whether this particular example is a ringfort, a later enclosure, or something else entirely remains uncertain given its condition. What adds a quiet curiosity to the site is the presence of a comparable enclosure approximately seventy metres to the north-east, the two features sitting close enough together to suggest a pattern, though what that pattern might mean in terms of settlement, landholding, or chronology is not yet established.