No Ordnance Survey map has ever marked it as an antiquity. For most of its recorded life it was quietly mistaken for a garden boundary, a drain, or a property line, and the buildings it once served were demolished sometime between 1840 and 1897. That it exists at all as a coherent shape is, in a sense, an accident of satellite photography.

The site first came to serious attention in November 1984, when aerial photographs were taken during survey work for a Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Examining those images, Gowen noted what he called an unusual circular drain system and raised the question of whether it might have reused already-cut ditches of an earlier enclosure. A cropmark, for those unfamiliar with the term, occurs when buried features such as ditches or walls affect how crops or grass grow above them, producing patterns visible only from altitude. What the 1984 photographs and later Google Earth orthoimages revealed is a multi-vallate form, meaning multiple concentric ditches or banks, of the kind typically associated with early medieval or prehistoric enclosed settlements. The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows the area with a tree-lined, irregular property boundary belonging to a post-1700 house that stood to the north, and the 1897 edition shows only a partial paddock boundary. The archaeological layer, if there is one, predates those post-1700 buildings entirely, and the current interpretation, compiled by Fiona Rooney in 2021, is that an older enclosure was likely reused as a convenient property boundary in the post-medieval period before being levelled altogether.

The site lies in pasture approximately 140 metres southeast of the townland boundary with Uregare and 500 metres east of Greenpark House. There is nothing visible at ground level; the earthwork has been ploughed or grazed flat. The place rewards attention not through what can be seen standing in the field but through what can be compared: the Google Earth orthoimages referenced in the site record show the cropmark formation clearly, and setting those against the historic Ordnance Survey editions, available through the OSi historical mapping viewer, gives a reasonable sense of how successive occupants layered their own uses over something much older and, so far, unexcavated.