It was never recorded on Ordnance Survey historic maps, and by the time satellite imagery was taken between 2005 and 2018 it had vanished entirely from the surface. What brought it briefly into view was the construction of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West, during which topsoil-stripping in 2002 exposed the feature on a steep, west-facing pasture slope, roughly 105 metres west of the townland boundary with Dollas.

Excavation that same year, carried out by Kate Taylor under licence number 02E0632, revealed a substantial north-south ditch running for at least 14 metres, though it likely continued beyond the excavated area in both directions. It was roughly 2 metres wide for most of its length, widening to 2.75 metres toward the southern end, and between 0.65 and 0.86 metres deep, with steeply concave sides and a roughly flat base. The fills told a layered story: the lower deposits were silty clays consistent with gradual, natural silting over time, followed by a dark charcoal-flecked layer, then a conspicuous deposit of large stones, and finally a thin cap of orange silty clay. That stone deposit is significant. Taylor suggested it may represent deliberate backfilling, perhaps using rubble from a demolished wall, a practice associated with agricultural improvement from the late eighteenth century onward. Eight artefacts were recovered, including a sherd of green-glazed medieval pottery, two fragments of coarse ceramic or fired clay, three pieces of animal bone, an oyster shell, and a single fragment of post-medieval bottle glass from the upper fill. It is that glass which complicates matters. The ditch's dimensions are out of step with the post-medieval drainage features found elsewhere along the pipeline corridor, and the medieval pottery suggests the feature may have originated considerably earlier, with the glass arriving only as later material accumulated in the upper layers.

There is nothing to see at this location today. The monument has been fully excavated, and aerial and satellite imagery confirms no surface trace remains on the pasture slope. Its significance is less visual than archival: it is a place that existed, was recorded with precision during a narrow window of opportunity, and then disappeared again into the ground. The site record, compiled by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly and uploaded in October 2020, is now the primary way the ditch continues to exist at all.