No earthwork, no raised ring, no tumbled stone marks its outline. What betrays it is the crop itself: in dry summers, the differential moisture retained by buried ditches and disturbed soil causes cereal plants to grow at slightly different rates, producing faint stripes and curves that only become legible from altitude. It was exactly this effect, captured in satellite imagery, that revealed an oval enclosure measuring approximately 52 metres north to south and 58 metres east to west.

The site was identified by Jean-Charles Caillère, Simon Dowling and James Eogan, working from Google Earth Pro imagery dated 14 July 2018. Cropmark enclosures of roughly this shape and scale in Ireland are generally associated with early medieval settlement, though without excavation the precise date and function of any individual example remain uncertain. What the imagery also shows is a later field boundary cutting across the eastern quadrant of the enclosure on a north-northeast to south-southwest alignment, a detail that speaks to centuries of agricultural reorganisation layering over whatever preceded it. The enclosure itself may have served as a ringfort, a defended farmstead of the kind that once numbered in the tens of thousands across the Irish countryside, most of them long since levelled by centuries of ploughing.