It does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps that Irish surveyors painstakingly compiled in the nineteenth century, and nothing rises above the grass to mark it. What gives it away, when conditions are right, is the soil itself: a faint sub-circular outline, roughly 20 metres north to south and 16 metres east to west, that shows up as a cropmark, a phenomenon where buried features affect plant growth above them in ways visible from the air, particularly in dry spells when shallow soils over a ditch or fosse retain moisture differently to undisturbed ground around them.

The earthwork came to light not through archaeological excavation or a deliberate survey, but as a by-product of infrastructure work. Aerial photographs taken on 3 November 1984 for the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline recorded the cropmark as part of a systematic aerial record of the pipeline corridor. The monument is defined by a wet fosse, essentially a water-filled or waterlogged ditch forming the enclosure boundary, and this feature remained visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken between 2011 and 2013, as well as on Google Earth imagery. The site sits within a broader field system, and two further enclosures lie 140 metres and 40 metres to the south-east respectively. Immediately to the south, a relic field boundary running north-west to south-east was recorded on the 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, suggesting the landscape around this spot had already been reorganised and partially obscured long before anyone thought to look from above. A relic watercourse follows a similar alignment just eight metres to the north-east.

Because the earthwork is a cropmark rather than an upstanding structure, there is little to see at ground level, and the site sits on private agricultural land. The clearest view remains an aerial one, accessible through Google Earth by anyone curious enough to look. The cropmark is most likely to be readable in orthoimages taken during dry summer months, when moisture stress in the vegetation above the fosse makes the outline legible. For those interested in the wider area, the clustering of enclosures nearby, compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded to the record in September 2021, suggests this part of south Limerick preserves a palimpsest of early activity that the ground-level landscape gives almost no hint of.