A circular cropmark just six metres in diameter appeared in satellite imagery captured on a dry summer's day in June 2018, the parched soil above a buried ditch revealing itself through the slightly different colour and height of the crops growing over it. This is how ring-ditches are so often found now, not through excavation or chance, but through the patient scrutiny of aerial and satellite photographs.

A ring-ditch is the buried remnant of a circular ditch, most commonly associated with prehistoric funerary or ceremonial activity, though without excavation it is rarely possible to say precisely what purpose any individual example served. What makes the Connahy example particularly interesting is that it does not stand alone. Another ring-ditch lies roughly 60 metres to the south-east, and a further cluster of at least four sits in the field immediately to the east. Simon Dowling identified this site while examining Google Earth Pro imagery, adding it to a picture of the wider landscape that suggests this quiet agricultural corner of Kilkenny was once a place of some significance to the communities who shaped it. Cropmark evidence of this kind is inherently fragmentary, offering an outline without contents, but the grouping of multiple ring-ditches in close proximity points toward a cemetery or ritual landscape that has otherwise left no trace above ground.