A circular earthen enclosure once sat in the fields just south-south-east of a cluster of houses known locally as the Paddock, its low, wide bank describing a ring in the ground that the Ordnance Survey cartographers of 1842 recorded simply as a sheep fold. By 1916, when the surveyors came again, it had vanished from the map entirely.

What the 1842 OS map captured was a working agricultural feature, the kind of enclosure farmers across Ireland used to contain and manage livestock. A bohareen, the Irish term for a narrow country lane, cut through the northern sector, running east to west and suggesting the enclosure had already become entangled with the local network of tracks and field boundaries. More curious was a small rectangular enclosure within the larger circle, roughly three metres by one point eight metres, tucked into the south-western sector. Whether that inner structure served a specific function within the fold, or belonged to an earlier phase of use on the same ground, the notes do not say. Circular earthen enclosures of this kind can sometimes have origins considerably older than their most recent agricultural use, though in this case no such determination was recorded. What is certain is that by the time anyone thought to document the site in detail, it had already been completely levelled.