A roughly circular enclosure, measuring around 44 metres across its interior and 62 metres in total diameter, once occupied this spot, defined by a wide outer fosse, the term for a defensive ditch, often water-filled, dug to reinforce the perimeter of an enclosed settlement.

The enclosure was recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, and again on the revision of 1900, both times showing the distinctive circular outline and its surrounding ditch with enough clarity to suggest the feature was still legible on the ground at those dates. At some point after that second survey, the monument was levelled, most likely through agricultural improvement. The earthworks were flattened, the fosse filled or eroded, and the site absorbed into ordinary farmland. Circular enclosures of this type are generally associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, often referred to as ring-forts or raths, though the specific origin and use of this particular example is not recorded. What is notable here is the size: at 62 metres overall, it sits at the larger end of what one typically encounters, which may hint at a settlement of some local importance, though that remains speculation.

The enclosure has not survived as a visible earthwork, but its outline can still be traced on satellite imagery, where the buried archaeology leaves faint tonal differences in the soil and vegetation above it. That kind of ghostly impression in the landscape, invisible at ground level but legible from above, is one of the quieter pleasures of looking at old Irish pasture with a map in one hand and an aerial view in the other.