It is the kind of site that appears briefly in the historical record and then, almost as quickly, disappears from the ground itself.

The enclosure was recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, one of the great systematic efforts to document the Irish landscape before so much of it changed. Enclosures of this type are generally understood as the remains of early medieval settlement, the circular or oval earthen boundaries, sometimes with an internal ditch and raised bank, that once defined a farmstead or small settlement. By the time the OS returned to revise their maps between 1899 and 1902, only the northern half of the feature was still marked, which suggests the southern portion had been levelled in the intervening decades, most likely through agricultural clearance. Satellite imagery captured in 2021 confirms the broader picture: aside from a fragmentary length of perimeter just visible in the northern quadrant, obscured by scrub, the enclosure has been all but erased.