From ground level, the pasture looks unremarkable. But look at the right aerial image, taken at the right time of year, and a circular cropmark emerges from the grass, the kind of ghostly outline that appears when buried features cause the vegetation above them to grow differently, betraying the presence of something older lying just beneath the surface.

The site was first recorded more concretely on the Ordnance Survey Ireland six-inch map of 1840, where it was depicted as a large, raised circular area defined by a scarp, meaning a steep slope or edge that would have formed the boundary of the original earthwork. That raised profile suggests it may once have been a substantial feature on the landscape. Curiously, it disappears from all subsequent editions of the historic OSi maps, which means that at some point between the mid-nineteenth century and later surveys, it was either ploughed down, overgrown, or simply overlooked by mapmakers. A nearby enclosure, a separate monument recorded roughly fifty metres to the south-west, hints that this was once a more complex landscape than the quiet farmland now suggests. By the time Digital Globe orthoimage data was captured between 2011 and 2013, only a trace of the northern half of the circular cropmark remained legible. A Google Earth image from November 2018 shows the full outline more clearly, though it is truncated at both the east and south-west by a field boundary that was established sometime after 1700, which has physically cut across and damaged the monument. The site was compiled for the record by Fiona Rooney and uploaded in November 2021.

Because the earthwork survives primarily as a cropmark rather than a visible surface feature, a visit in the conventional sense is not straightforward. The monument sits in private pasture, so access would require landowner permission. Cropmarks of this kind tend to show most clearly from the air, or in aerial imagery, during dry summers when soil moisture differences above buried features become pronounced. Anyone with a strong interest in the landscape archaeology of the region would do well to cross-reference the OSi historic map viewer with current satellite imagery to appreciate what survives and what has been lost to later field boundaries.