When surveyors first documented this site in 1841, they recorded it as a roughly circular embanked enclosure, measuring about 50 metres across. Yet by the time the Ordnance Survey returned in 1923, the monument had seemingly transformed; it now appeared as a rectangular enclosure, roughly 50 metres from northwest to southeast and 40 metres from east to west, with its southeastern side mysteriously absent.

This shapeshifting monument was likely a moated site, a type of medieval earthwork common across Ireland where defensive ditches and banks surrounded farmsteads or small settlements. These enclosures, whether circular or rectangular, served both practical and social purposes; providing drainage, defence, and a clear statement of land ownership during turbulent times. The discrepancy between the two surveys might reflect changes to the site over those eighty years, or perhaps different interpretations by the surveyors themselves.

Unfortunately, visitors hoping to explore this piece of medieval heritage will find only empty fields today. According to local memory, the embanked rectangular enclosure survived until around 1980, when modern agricultural improvements swept it away along with the surrounding field boundaries. When archaeologist Denis Power inspected the site in 2011, he found no trace of the monument that once stood here; another reminder of how quickly Ireland’s archaeological landscape can vanish beneath the plough.