It exists now primarily as a cartographic fact, a feature that nineteenth-century surveyors recorded and later generations built over, leaving no surface trace for anyone standing in the yard today.

The enclosure was marked on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, drawn as a circular embanked feature sitting in the valley of a north-south stream that runs immediately to the east. Embanked enclosures of this kind, defined by an earthen bank rather than a wall or ditch, are found across Ireland and are generally associated with early medieval settlement, though without excavation the date and function of any individual example remain uncertain. The valley setting beside a watercourse would have been a practical choice for a farming community, offering drainage, water supply, and some shelter. By the time the farmyard was developed over the site, whatever bank or earthwork once marked its outline had been absorbed entirely into the working landscape.