In the dry summer of 1989, an aerial photograph captured a series of cropmarks, the faint but telling variations in vegetation colour and height that appear above buried features when soil moisture differs, revealing traces of ancient activity that have otherwise left no surface impression whatsoever.

The photograph, taken in July 1989, shows three small ring-ditches sitting within two parallel fosses, that is, ditches or earthwork boundaries, running on a northwest to southeast axis. The arrangement suggests these features may once have formed part of a organised field system, with the ring-ditches, which are circular ditched enclosures often associated with prehistoric funerary or settlement activity, positioned inside or alongside what could have been a managed agricultural boundary. What makes the Connahy site particularly interesting is that it does not stand alone. Several further ring-ditches have been identified as cropmarks in the surrounding area, to the northeast, south, and southwest, suggesting that this corner of Kilkenny preserves, invisibly, a much wider pattern of early land use. The clustering of so many such features across a relatively compact area points to sustained human activity here over a long period, even if the precise dates and functions of each individual feature remain uncertain without ground investigation.