What lies beneath the reclaimed pasture at Kildromin is not a ruin in any conventional sense, but a ghost pressed into the soil, legible only from the air.

The enclosure came to light during the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986, when a roughly circular cropmark was recorded in the townland. Cropmarks form when buried features such as ditches or walls affect the growth of crops or grass above them, causing the vegetation to show subtle differences in colour or height that are invisible on foot but suddenly coherent from altitude. What the 1986 survey captured was later confirmed by multiple sources: Ordnance Survey Ireland orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012, and a Google Earth image dated 20 September 2020, both show a sub-circular area measuring approximately 20 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, defined by a fosse, which is a type of enclosing ditch. The site was compiled into the record by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in March 2021, drawing also on ASI aerial photographs from August 2000 and January 2003. It sits in reclaimed pasture just south of a field boundary running northeast to southwest, with two other recorded enclosures in close proximity: one 55 metres to the northeast and another 125 metres to the west, suggesting this corner of Limerick was once rather more structured and settled than its present appearance suggests.

There is nothing to see at ground level, and the site sits on private agricultural land, so any visit would require landowner permission. The enclosure is best appreciated through the aerial and satellite imagery already in the public record. For those interested in the wider landscape, the clustering of three enclosures within a relatively short distance of one another is worth noting on a map, even if the terrain itself offers no visible reward.