Enclosures of this kind, often ringforts or the remnants of early medieval farmsteads defined by an earthen bank and an outer fosse (a defensive ditch surrounding the perimeter), were once common features of the Irish countryside. This one, at least on paper, appeared to survive into the twentieth century with its outline more or less intact.

By the time satellite imagery was consulted in July 2020, the picture had changed considerably. The monument had been levelled, its raised interior gone, though a trace of the outer fosse remained legible in the north to north-east sector, where the ground had not been fully disturbed. A deep agricultural drain, cut on a north-west to south-east alignment, had been driven across the western portion of the site, running from its southern edge outward to the north-west. It is the kind of gradual, cumulative damage that has reduced countless similar sites across Ireland to faint shadows in the soil, visible only from the air or through close reading of old maps laid against modern imagery.