No mound, no stone, no earthwork breaks the surface; the only evidence that anything lies beneath comes from the air. On an aerial photograph taken in July 1989, the outline of a circular enclosure, somewhere between eight and ten metres across, revealed itself as a cropmark, the faint differential greening or yellowing of crops growing above buried features that betray, to a trained eye, the shape of what lies underground.

The feature is a ring-ditch, a type of monument typically associated with prehistoric funerary or ritual activity, formed by a circular fosse, or ditch, dug around a central area. Whether the enclosed space once held a burial mound long since ploughed flat, or served some other purpose, cannot be said from the evidence available. What is notable is that this site does not stand alone. A second ring-ditch lies roughly fifty metres to the northeast, suggesting that whatever activity took place here, it was repeated, or at least that this patch of Kilkenny farmland held some significance across time to the people who worked and shaped it. Cropmark sites like these are often the only traces of monuments that have otherwise entirely vanished from the landscape, surviving only as ghostly impressions in the soil, readable for a few weeks each dry summer when conditions are right.