The 1840 Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks the spot simply as "Pillars", a name suggesting structures imposing enough to be landmarks in their own right. By 1897 and again in 1916, later editions had renamed them "Gate Piers" and showed an avenue stretching away to the north-north-east. When someone finally went to look in 1998, the walls were still there, roughly a metre high, but the piers themselves had vanished entirely.

The wider context makes the absence more interesting. The walls here form part of a deerpark enclosure associated with the road to Leamaneh, itself the site of a well-known tower house and fortified house in the Burren. Thomas Johnson Westropp, writing in 1900, described this stretch of road towards Corofin as carrying "the long walled avenue, with the piers of two other gateways", grouping these pillars together with a second set of gate piers located roughly 550 metres to the south-east. Westropp's account suggests that, at the turn of the twentieth century, enough was still visible to read the whole composition, a formal walled approach of the kind typically associated with a landed estate, punctuated by gateways marking transitions between enclosures or property boundaries. A deerpark, in the Irish context, was typically a walled or enclosed tract used by a gentry household for keeping deer, and the surviving wall here is understood to be part of that perimeter.

What a visitor finds today is a quiet roadside feature that rewards attention precisely because it resists easy interpretation. The walls survive; the piers do not. The avenue they once announced has left no obvious trace on the ground. The maps record a place that the landscape itself has quietly retired from.