This ancient earthwork, measuring approximately 47 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, sits in flat pasture land about 380 metres north of another nearby enclosure. Despite its absence from historical maps, the site has revealed itself through modern aerial photography, first appearing in the Bruff aerial photographic survey of 1986 where it was catalogued as Bruff 32.

The enclosure’s sub-rectangular shape becomes clearly visible from above, a ghostly outline etched into the landscape that only reveals itself through the bird’s eye view of aerial imagery. Whilst the Ordnance Survey Ireland’s orthoimagery captured it between 2005 and 2012, and Digital Globe documented it from 2011 to 2013, more recent Google Earth images from 2016 and 2018 continue to show its distinctive form pressed into the pasture.

This type of archaeological feature represents one of many such earthworks scattered across the Irish countryside, their purposes ranging from defensive settlements to agricultural enclosures. The site’s discovery through aerial survey rather than traditional ground-based archaeology demonstrates how modern technology continues to unveil Ireland’s hidden historical landscape, revealing features that have sat quietly in plain sight for centuries, invisible to all but those who know how to look from the right angle.