What appears in a 1970 aerial photograph as a roughly circular cropmark, a faint ghostly outline pressed into the summer grass, is all that remains legible of what was once an enclosure, the kind of circular earthwork, defined by a bank and ditch, that was a common feature of the Irish landscape from prehistory through the early medieval period. On the ground, there is nothing to see. The enclosure did not appear on either the first or second edition Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, which means it had already been reduced to near-invisibility before the nineteenth century's most thorough mapping efforts were made.

The aerial photograph in question, taken by the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography in July 1970 and referenced as BDR 87, picks out only the south-western quadrant of the enclosure with any clarity. The rest has been effectively erased by centuries of agricultural use. A field boundary running north to south cuts across the western side of the site, and a further boundary runs east to west along its northern sector. A field ditch lies to the east. What these boundaries have done, incrementally, is dismember whatever earthwork once defined the space. A slight rise in the field, easy to dismiss as natural undulation in the gently northward-sloping terrain, may be the last physical trace of the levelled bank. Roughly 200 metres to the south-east lies another enclosure, suggesting this part of Tipperary was once a more structured and inhabited landscape than the current fields imply.