A ring-ditch, roughly ten metres across, shows up only as a cropmark, that faint but telling phenomenon where buried ditches or pits cause the vegetation above them to grow differently, greener or more parched depending on the season, tracing the outline of a structure that has long since vanished from view at ground level. It is the kind of thing you would walk across without the faintest suspicion.

The enclosure was identified from a digital aerial photograph taken in 2004, its circular outline emerging clearly against the surrounding level landscape. Ring-ditches of this type are generally understood to be the surviving traces of prehistoric funerary or ritual monuments, the filled-in remnants of a circular ditch that once surrounded a burial mound or similar structure. At around ten metres in diameter, this is a modest example, but size is rarely the point with such sites. What it suggests is a moment of deliberate ceremony in this otherwise unremarkable corner of County Wexford, carried out at some point so distant that the mound itself has been ploughed flat, leaving only the ghost of its surrounding ditch to surface occasionally, and briefly, in the right light and the right growing season.