The land is in lush pasture now, managed as part of a farm belonging to St. Patrick's College, and the farm manager confirmed that the field had previously been tilled to a depth of nine inches without anyone noticing anything out of the ordinary underfoot. No circular feature, no anomaly, nothing.

What gives the site away is a circular cropmark visible only from the air, picked up in Ordnance Survey aerial photography. Cropmarks form when buried features, walls, ditches, or banks, influence the growth of whatever is planted above them, with the difference becoming legible at altitude even when it is invisible at ground level. The enclosure at Monakeeba left no trace on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map from 1843, nor on the revised edition surveyed in 1952 and 1953, suggesting it had already been largely erased from the landscape long before either survey was carried out. Its shape, circular, sits on the ridge running roughly north-northeast to south-southwest, but beyond that the site keeps its details to itself.