What makes it quietly odd is not its age or its form, but the way it seems to have been looked after through inaction. The surrounding woodland has largely been cleared, yet a patch of trees and scrub persists precisely where the enclosure sits, suggesting that whoever has managed the land over the years has simply worked around it, leaving the monument undisturbed beneath its canopy.

The enclosure first appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, drawn as a small circular feature roughly seventeen metres in diameter within a woodland plantation. Buildings stood immediately to its south-southeast and east at that time, which hints at a working estate landscape in which the enclosure was a known, if perhaps unexplained, presence. Circular enclosures of this kind are common across Ireland and can date to a wide range of periods; they often represent the remains of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically built between the early medieval period and around the twelfth century, though some examples are earlier or later. By the time the revised Ordnance Survey map was produced around 1900, the feature had been dropped from the record entirely, which might suggest it had been forgotten or built over. The survival of the tree cover above it tells a different story.