What appears to the eye as ordinary farmland reveals, under the right conditions, the ghostly outline of a double-ditched oval enclosure, roughly thirty metres across, preserved not in stone or earthwork but as a cropmark, the differential growth of crops over buried features that betrays the presence of ancient ditches beneath the soil.

The enclosure came to light in aerial photography taken in July 1989, which captured two concentric fosses, that is, ditches, tracing an oval shape in the earth below. What makes the site particularly striking is its context within the same field: a circular enclosure lies roughly a hundred metres to the north-east, and a further possible enclosure sits approximately two hundred and fifty metres in the same direction. The clustering of these features suggests this corner of north Cork was a place of some sustained activity in the early medieval period, when enclosed settlements of this kind were common across Ireland. Such enclosures typically defined a farmstead or small community, with the ditches providing both a physical boundary and a degree of status or protection.