What the 1911 edition of the Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map recorded as a polygonal platform, a raised, many-sided earthen feature set apart from its surroundings, now leaves only the faintest trace on the land. By 2011, when a Digital Globe aerial photograph was taken in November of that year, the site had been levelled entirely, its outline surviving only as a slight cropmark, the kind of pale or dark stain in a field that shows up briefly in certain seasons when buried features affect how grass or grain grows above them.

The gap between those two moments, a surveyed map notation in 1911 and a near-invisible cropmark a century later, is itself a quiet record of how much of the Irish landscape has been reshaped through agricultural improvement and land clearance. Polygonal earthwork platforms of this kind are not always easy to classify. Depending on their origin, they might represent the remains of a fortified enclosure, a raised settlement site, or any number of other structural types that once organised life and defence in the medieval or early modern countryside. Without more documentation, this one cannot be pinned down further. What can be said is that it was considered significant enough to record in detail in the early twentieth century, and that the process of its erasure was complete within a few generations.