The only way to see it is from above, and even then, only under the right conditions. During dry summers, buried features like this one interrupt the moisture supply to crops growing over them, causing subtle differences in colour and height that show up as cropmarks when viewed from altitude. Satellite imagery captured through Apple Maps revealed exactly this kind of ghostly outline, a near-perfect ring pressed into the farmland, its fosse, or enclosing ditch, tracing a circle that no plough has entirely erased.

The site was identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère, and the cropmark evidence places it within a cluster of related features. Roughly fifty metres to the north lies a significantly larger enclosure, also visible only as a cropmark, and a second ring-ditch sits just ten metres to the north-north-west. Ring-ditches of this kind are generally understood to be the eroded remains of prehistoric burial monuments, most often round barrows where the central mound has long since been ploughed flat, leaving only the surrounding ditch as a trace. Their appearance in groups is not uncommon; prehistoric communities frequently returned to the same landscapes across generations, creating loose concentrations of funerary or ritual activity that can persist as faint signatures in the soil for thousands of years. That three such features appear in close proximity at Woodrooff suggests this corner of Tipperary was once a place of some significance, even if the people who made it so left nothing above ground to mark the fact.