The ground has been levelled, the grass reclaimed, and whatever once stood here has long since disappeared beneath the soil of County Limerick. And yet the site persists, betrayed by the land itself: in dry conditions, the buried outlines of an ancient enclosure still bleed through as a cropmark, a ghost of circular geometry roughly 27 metres across that becomes legible from above even when it is entirely invisible to someone standing in the field.

The enclosure was unknown to cartographers. It does not appear on any historic Ordnance Survey Ireland maps, which suggests it had already been levelled before systematic mapping of the area took place. Its existence only came to light in 1986, when an aerial photographic survey operating out of Bruff captured the telltale shadow of its form from the air, catalogued under reference AP 5/2045. Subsequent orthophotography taken by OSi between 2005 and 2012 confirmed the detail more precisely: a circular fosse, that is a ditch used as a boundary or defensive feature, with a causewayed gap on the northern side, the kind of deliberate break that would once have served as an entrance. By September 2020, a Google Earth orthoimage was still showing the cropmark clearly. The enclosure appears to have sat within a slightly larger levelled field, itself defined by a fosse measuring approximately 46 metres on its northeast to southwest axis and 34 metres on the northwest to southeast. A well lies immediately to the south, and a forestry plantation borders the site to the north.

The site sits roughly 75 metres east of the townland boundary with Oldtown, and a related enclosure recorded separately lies around 200 metres to the east. For anyone trying to locate it, the reclaimed grassland setting means there are no obvious surface features to orient by. The cropmark is most likely to be visible in dry summer conditions when differential moisture in the soil causes overlying vegetation to respond unevenly to buried features below. A satellite image or recent orthophoto is genuinely the most useful tool here, offering a perspective that ground-level observation simply cannot. Martin Fitzpatrick compiled the record in April 2021, drawing on the accumulated aerial evidence to document a place that has, in a quiet way, been hiding in plain sight for decades.