It is the kind of monument that cartographers once dutifully recorded and farmers have since, without any particular malice, simply farmed around and over.

The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, surveyed around 1840, shows the enclosure clearly as a circular feature with a field boundary running east to west along its northern edge. Enclosures of this type are among the most common monuments in the Irish landscape, most often interpreted as the remains of a ringfort, a defended farmstead of the early medieval period, though some are older still. By the time the revised edition was produced in 1903 to 1904, the monument had disappeared from the map altogether. What the cartographers could no longer draw, the landscape itself still quietly retained: that curving deviation in the field boundary marks the line of the original bank along the northern arc. The site sits on a south-facing slope, and is part of a small cluster of monuments in the immediate area, with a standing stone approximately 30 metres to the north-north-east and a second enclosure roughly 70 metres to the north.

At ground level the enclosure is not visible as a coherent shape, but the uneven ground in the area of the monument hints at what lies beneath the pasture. The field boundary, if you know what to look for, still bends slightly where the bank once defined the edge of whatever settlement or enclosure stood here.