Measuring approximately 25 metres north to south and 21.5 metres east to west, this ancient feature sits on ground broken by seams of karst limestone, with the land immediately to the north dropping sharply into a stream valley overlooked by a high ridge. Despite its proximity to ruined farm buildings in the neighbouring field to the west, this enclosure has somehow escaped documentation on any edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, remaining an unrecorded piece of Ireland’s archaeological landscape.

The enclosing bank, standing just 30 centimetres high and spanning 2 to 2.5 metres wide, forms a gentle rise that’s most visible along its western and northeastern sections, where it appears as a grass-covered undulation in the terrain. Along the northeastern to southeastern arc, the original earthwork has been incorporated into a later field wall, now collapsed into a tumble of stones. The southern section tells a different story; here the enclosure’s outline becomes almost imperceptible, disrupted by an area of quarrying activity where limestone bedrock was extracted, leaving a disturbed patch roughly 3.5 to 4 metres wide along what would have been the original line of the bank.

The interior of the enclosure remains remarkably level, sitting flush with the surrounding ground rather than raised above it as might be expected from a defensive or ceremonial site. This lack of elevation, combined with its modest size and simple construction, suggests it may have served a practical agricultural purpose, perhaps as an early livestock enclosure or a demarcated space for specific farming activities. Its absence from historical maps raises intriguing questions about its age and significance; it may predate systematic surveying of the area, or simply have been considered too insignificant to record by nineteenth-century cartographers focused on more substantial structures.