The grass gives nothing away; no bank rises from the pasture, no hollow or crop-mark hints at what was once recorded here. The site is known only because surveyors working on the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland mapped it in 1839, noting a roughly circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of around 35 metres. An embanked enclosure of this type typically consists of an earthen bank defining a circular or near-circular area, a form associated in Ireland with a wide range of periods and purposes, from early medieval settlement to ritual use. Without excavation, it is impossible to say which applies here.

The 1839 mapping is the site's primary document. By the time more recent attention came to the immediate area, the enclosure itself had already vanished from the visible landscape. Archaeological monitoring carried out by M. McCarthy in connection with a water pipe laid approximately 60 metres to the south-west, the closest the works came to the recorded feature, produced no archaeological material at all. The pipe trench, in other words, found nothing, though it did not pass through the enclosure itself. What caused the earthwork to disappear entirely is not recorded; centuries of ploughing and grazing on a steep hillside are the likeliest explanation, but that remains inference rather than established fact.