No bank, no wall, no obvious earthwork marks the spot. The only record of its existence comes from an aerial photograph taken in July 1989, in which the buried ditch, or fosse, of a small circular enclosure showed up as a cropmark, the faint differential in how grass or grain grows above disturbed soil that reveals, from the air, what centuries of ploughing have long since erased at ground level.

A ring-ditch of this kind is the ghostly remnant of a prehistoric or early medieval enclosure, most likely the ditch that once surrounded a burial mound, a small farmstead, or a ritual monument. At only ten metres in diameter, this one is on the intimate end of the scale. What makes the site at Moyge quietly interesting is not the ring-ditch alone but its neighbours. Two further circular enclosures lie close by to the north-east, one of comparable size at around ten metres across and another considerably larger at roughly sixty-five metres in diameter. Whether these features were related in function or period is unknown, but their proximity suggests that this particular stretch of north Cork held some significance across a long stretch of time, the kind of landscape where activity attracted further activity, generation after generation.