The enclosure measures approximately 48 metres in diameter, a size broadly consistent with the ringforts, or raths, that appear in their thousands across Ireland, typically the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval landholders. What makes this one quietly interesting is not what it is but how it has moved through the historical record, appearing and disappearing depending on who was looking and what they found convenient to map.

When the Ordnance Survey produced its first edition six-inch maps in 1839, the enclosure went unrecorded, most likely because the ground it occupied was then a small tree plantation, and surveyors may simply have noted the trees rather than whatever lay beneath them. What they did mark, just to the north-west, was a lime kiln and an associated quarry. Lime kilns were a common feature of the Irish agricultural landscape, used to burn limestone and produce the quicklime that farmers spread on acidic soils to improve fertility. By the time the OS revisited the area for its 1948 revision, the enclosure had become visible enough to merit inclusion on the map, though that same revision recorded something less welcome: the quarry had by then eaten into the north-western quadrant of the monument itself, leaving the earthwork physically diminished on one side. The site thus carries within its outline a compressed history of land use, with the likely remains of an early medieval settlement pressed up against the industrial remnants of agricultural improvement.