A set of linear earthworks, faint enough to be dismissed as nothing at all, were first noticed not by a surveyor walking the land but by an aircraft passing over it in 1986, during the Bruff aerial photographic survey. That survey, which systematically documented features across this part of Limerick, logged the Feloree earthworks under reference Bruff 23(02). Decades later, a Google Earth orthoimage taken in July 2017 still showed a faint trace of the same features, which is either reassuring or unsettling depending on your disposition toward things that refuse to disappear.

The earthworks sit 65 metres west of a stream marking the townland boundary with Boherroe, and are bracketed to the north and east by the boundaries with Ballyphilip. None of this appears on Ordnance Survey historical mapping, which is itself a point of interest. The OS surveyors of the nineteenth century were thorough; if they did not record it, the feature may have been too subtle even then, or may have emerged, or re-emerged, in the soil only later. The current interpretation, compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded to the record in July 2020, suggests these linear markings may be the remains of post-1700 field drainage channels, the kind of practical earthmoving that transformed boggy or waterlogged ground into workable farmland across Ireland after the seventeenth century. An old watercourse appears to have run north to south along the eastern side of the field, and the channels may have fed into it. Adding a further layer of context, two ring-barrows, which are low circular burial mounds typically dating to the Bronze Age, lie roughly 48 and 80 metres to the north-east. Whether the drainage works respected or ignored those older features is not recorded.

This is not a site with a visitor car park or an interpretive panel. The earthworks are in private agricultural land, and the features themselves are essentially invisible at ground level. The aerial survey image marked 23(02) and the 2018 Google Earth orthoimage are currently the clearest means of understanding what is there. Anyone with a particular interest in field archaeology or crop-mark features might find the Bruff survey archive a useful starting point, and the proximity of the ring-barrows means the general area rewards a closer look at the wider record for this part of Limerick.