Not obscured by vegetation or locked behind a gate, but genuinely invisible to anyone standing on the ground, the semicircular enclosure here exists, as far as practical experience goes, only as a shape in an old aerial photograph.

The outline of the enclosure was captured in a 1973 aerial photograph, where it appears as a curved form cutting across the gently undulating farmland of North Tipperary. Its position on a low rise of ground is consistent with the kind of site, typically a ringfort or enclosed settlement, that early medieval farming communities built across Ireland, using an earthen bank or ditch to define a domestic space. The enclosure's shape was already recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which dates from the mid-nineteenth century, suggesting the feature was at least partially legible in the landscape at that point. By 1973 a field fence had been driven through it, and at some stage since the original survey the earthwork itself flattened out entirely. What the aerial photograph preserves is the cropmark or soilmark trace of a boundary that farming activity had by then erased.