The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows a neat circular enclosure roughly thirty metres in external diameter, sitting on a vantage point at the western end of a low natural ridge in undulating pasture. By 1897, it had vanished from mapping entirely, and when the Archaeological Survey of Ireland inspected the site in 2007, they could find no surface trace whatsoever. It is, in the most literal sense, a place defined by its own disappearance.

The feature sits within the demesne lands of Cloghanarold House, which lies about 300 metres to the north. A demesne, in Irish landholding terms, refers to the home farm and ornamental grounds attached to a country house, often landscaped from the eighteenth century onwards to create pleasing views and fashionable effects. The circular enclosure has been interpreted as a tree-ring, a planted circle of trees used as an ornamental or functional element in designed landscapes of the post-1700 period. Crucially, it was not marked as an antiquity on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map, which suggests the cartographers understood it as a contemporary landscape feature rather than an ancient monument. The site sits on a ridge with Doondonnell Church 180 metres to the north-west and a ringfort 200 metres to the south-south-west, so whoever designed this corner of the demesne had a reasonably layered set of references in the surrounding land. The record was compiled by Edmond O'Donovan and uploaded in September 2020.

Visitors should temper their expectations of what they will find underfoot. Nothing is visible on aerial imagery from 2005 to 2013, though the levelled location does register on Google Earth orthoimages taken in April 2015 and June 2018 as a faint trace in the pasture. The site is on private farmland, and there is no public access or signage. Its interest lies less in what can be seen than in what the cartographic record preserves: a snapshot of a landscape that was carefully arranged and then quietly erased, leaving just enough of a ghost to raise the question of what once stood there.