On the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, it was recorded as a circular enclosure roughly forty metres across, sitting on a rise in undulating grassland. Today, that cartographic confidence has been reduced to a faint circular ridge, easy to miss and easier still to dismiss as a trick of the terrain.

Circular enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape. They typically served as enclosed farmsteads or ringforts, a form of settlement that was widespread from the early medieval period onward, in which a family and their livestock lived and worked within a defined boundary, usually a bank of earth or a wall. The place name Rabbitpark offers no obvious clue to former habitation, though such names often postdate the features they now label by many centuries. Without more detailed excavation or survey, the original date and function of this particular enclosure remain unknown. What the maps captured was already a remnant; what survives now is a remnant of that remnant.