It does not appear on any of the Ordnance Survey Ireland historic map series, which means it slipped through the various waves of surveying and documentation that catalogued much of the Irish landscape over the past two centuries. That kind of absence is itself a small puzzle, since circular enclosures of this type are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish countryside.

The site came to light not through fieldwork but through aerial photography, specifically an oblique aerial photograph held in the Aerial Survey of Ireland Archive Photographic collection, reference ASIAP (370) 33. From above, the feature reads as a roughly circular area approximately twenty-six metres in diameter, set within marshy ground that may itself have helped preserve it by discouraging the kind of intensive agricultural activity that has levelled so many comparable sites elsewhere. A Google Earth orthoimage from April 2021 confirmed the shape was still legible on the ground at that point. The site sits in the townland of Fort West, with the River Maigue forming the boundary to the south with the neighbouring townland of Cloonmore. Martin Fitzpatrick compiled the record and uploaded it in August 2021. The classification remains cautious, describing it only as a possible circular enclosure, since no excavation or ground survey has yet confirmed what the feature actually is. Circular enclosures of this scale in Ireland are frequently the remains of ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads that were built in their thousands between roughly the sixth and twelfth centuries, though the term possible is doing real work here.

Accessing the site in any meaningful sense is complicated by the wet pasture that surrounds it. The marshy ground that helped preserve the feature is the same ground a visitor would have to cross, and conditions will vary considerably depending on season and recent rainfall. The River Maigue runs close to the southern edge of the townland, so the general area is prone to holding water. Anyone curious enough to look should expect soft going underfoot for much of the year, and should bear in mind that the enclosure is on private agricultural land. The feature is most likely to be legible from above rather than from ground level, where the slight rise or depression that marks its edge may be subtle. The aerial images that brought it to attention in the first place remain the clearest way of understanding its shape.