That slight swell, measuring roughly 34 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, is all that now remains of what was once mapped as a distinct enclosure. A low interior bank still runs roughly north to south across the enclosed area, hinting at some original subdivision or structural intent. To a passing eye it reads as nothing more than uneven ground.

The enclosure appeared on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which places its formal recognition in the nineteenth century, though the feature itself is almost certainly much older. Enclosures of this type are generally associated with early medieval Ireland, when circular or oval earthen boundaries, often called ringforts or raths, served as farmstead enclosures for a single family or household. Local tradition remembers this one specifically as a fort, a word that in Irish rural usage tends to carry as much folkloric weight as archaeological meaning; such sites were frequently left unploughed out of a cautious respect for whatever forces were believed to inhabit them. That instinct may, inadvertently, be what preserved even this faint outline into the present.