The site appears on both the 1905 and 1936 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, where it’s depicted as an irregular four-sided enclosure measuring approximately 40 metres from northwest to southeast, with the northeastern to southwestern dimension varying from 40 metres at the southeastern side to 30 metres at the northwestern end.

This lost earthwork sat on the demesne of Bowen’s Court, the ancestral home of the Anglo-Irish Bowen family and birthplace of novelist Elizabeth Bowen. The enclosure’s proximity to the main house suggests it may have served some agricultural or defensive purpose for the estate, though its exact function remains unclear. Like many such features across the Irish landscape, it has succumbed to agricultural improvement and the passage of time, leaving only its cartographic footprint as evidence of its existence.

The site was documented as part of the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, with researchers noting its complete destruction by 2009. Whilst nothing remains to see at ground level today, the historical maps preserve its form for posterity; a small but intriguing piece of the archaeological puzzle that once characterised this part of north Cork’s rural landscape.