Roughly fifteen metres across, it exists not as a wall or an earthwork but as a cropmark, a ghostly ring that appears in growing grain only when viewed from above, where differences in soil depth and moisture cause crops to ripen unevenly over buried features. A ring-ditch of this kind is typically the remains of a circular enclosure or burial monument, its original ditch long since silted up and ploughed flat over centuries of agriculture, leaving behind only a faint chemical signature in the earth.

The site came to light on an aerial photograph taken on 20 August 1991. What made that photograph particularly striking was that this ring-ditch was not alone. Three others appeared in the same frame, spaced across the surrounding fields, one lying roughly fifty metres to the south-east, another about seventy metres to the west, and a fourth approximately one hundred and forty metres to the north-west. The grouping suggests this corner of Kilkenny was once a place of some ceremonial or funerary significance, with monuments clustered in a pattern that would have made sense to the people who built them, even if that meaning is now largely lost. In the years since the photograph was taken, the R693 road was constructed running north-west to south-east through the area, physically dividing the four sites, with two now falling to the east of the road and two to the west.

There is little to see at ground level today, which is itself part of what makes the place quietly arresting. The road that now cuts between these ancient features did not exist when they were first recorded, and the landscape continues to change around monuments that have already survived, invisibly, for millennia.