Now the trees are gone too, leaving an oval of uprooted stumps across cleared ground, the remnant of something that was already being gradually erased.

What remains is a roughly oval earthen enclosure, oriented north to south across about ninety metres and east to west across seventy, set on level grassland. Enclosures of this kind, defined by a raised earthen bank and an external fosse, a shallow ditch dug to provide the material for the bank, appear across Ireland in various forms and periods, from early medieval settlement boundaries to later land divisions. Here the bank survives to a width of around three metres and is most legible between the south-west and west sides of the oval, where the fosse, roughly 1.7 metres wide, is also still visible. Elsewhere the bank has been levelled, though its general line can still be traced from the west around through the north and down to the south-east. The south-east to south-west arc has lost all visible surface trace entirely.

The interior has been cleared, and the ground is covered with the stumps of the trees that once gave the place its distinctive character on the old maps. What you are left with is a palimpsest of losses: the function of the enclosure unknown, its original construction date unrecorded, its tree cover recently removed, and its earthworks surviving only in fragments. The south-west corner offers the clearest sense of what the whole once looked like, the bank and fosse together giving enough relief to suggest the scale of the original effort involved in marking out this patch of north Galway ground.