It cannot be seen from the road, or even on foot. It only reveals itself from the air, and only under the right conditions, as a faint cropmark, the ghostly outline of a small ring-ditch roughly eight metres in diameter.

Cropmarks appear when buried features affect the growth of crops or grass above them. A filled ditch, for instance, retains more moisture than the surrounding soil, producing a subtle difference in plant colour or height that becomes legible from above, particularly in dry summers when the contrast is sharpest. The feature at Newhouse belongs to a category of monument found widely across Ireland, a ring-ditch, which typically represents the ploughed-out or eroded remains of a burial mound, a Bronze Age barrow reduced over centuries of cultivation to little more than a circular trench in the subsoil. At around eight metres across, this is a small example, and what lies at its centre, if anything survives at all, is unknown. What it suggests, though, is that someone chose this quiet, flat piece of Wexford landscape as a place of significance, possibly thousands of years ago.