What was once mapped as a roughly circular enclosure, about 23 metres in diameter, has effectively vanished from the surface of the earth, swallowed by dense rushes and the slow drift of agricultural change. The only hint of something beneath is a slight rise in the ground, the kind of gentle anomaly that most walkers would step over without a second thought.

The enclosure appears clearly on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map, drawn as a near-circular feature sitting immediately alongside a ringfort to its north-east, with a field boundary wrapping around it to the north-west and north-east. Ringforts, for the uninitiated, are the remains of enclosed farmsteads typical of early medieval Ireland, usually defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. An enclosure of this kind, abutting a ringfort so closely, suggests a settlement or agricultural complex of some complexity, the two features possibly functioning together. But by the time the 25-inch Ordnance Survey maps were produced, and again by the 1921 edition of the six-inch map, the enclosure had disappeared from the cartographic record entirely, even as the field boundary around it remained. A second ringfort lies only about 18 metres to the south-west, which makes this small area of undistinguished pasture quietly dense with early activity, even if none of it is legible from where you stand.