A low rise in gently rolling pasture holds no visible trace of anything at all, yet two separate Ordnance Survey maps, nearly a century apart, record something quite different sitting here.

The 1837 OS six-inch map shows a circular enclosure, roughly the size of a ringfort, which is the general term for the roughly circular earthen or stone-built enclosures, typically dating from the early medieval period, that are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape. By the time the 1930 edition was produced, the same feature had shifted in description to an oval enclosure planted with trees. Whether that planting represented deliberate landscaping around a known feature, or whether the trees themselves had altered how surveyors read the shape from a distance, is unclear. What is certain is that at ground level today, nothing survives to see. No banks, no ditches, no stumps or root lines to suggest the trees that once apparently stood here. The site has been absorbed entirely into the surrounding pasture.