Though this site never made it onto the Ordnance Survey Ireland’s historic maps, the surrounding field bears an intriguing annotation on the 1840 edition: ‘Glebe’. This designation for church;owned land caught the attention of archaeologists, who’ve tentatively suggested these cropmarks might represent a monastic grange; essentially a farm that once supplied food and income to a religious community.

The site reveals itself best from above, particularly in aerial photographs taken when conditions are just right. A Google Earth image from April 2006 shows two linear cropmarks tracing what appears to be the northeast and southeast sides of a rectangular earthwork. The public road likely forms the southwest boundary, whilst the northwest side remains open. Two additional parallel lines run northeast to southwest just beyond the southeastern edge, possibly indicating further structures or field boundaries from the same period.

These ghostly outlines in the landscape represent the kind of archaeological feature that’s easily missed from ground level but becomes visible under certain conditions, when differences in crop growth reveal buried foundations or ditches. The Sites and Monuments Record keeps this location on file as a potential monastic site, though further investigation would be needed to confirm its exact nature and dating. For now, it remains one of those tantalising glimpses into Ireland’s layered past, where medieval religious communities once managed vast agricultural estates that have long since returned to ordinary farmland.