It is the kind of loss that rarely makes headlines, and that is partly what makes it worth noting.

The site was recorded on Ordnance Survey mapping surveyed between 1912 and 1916, where it appeared as an irregularly shaped enclosure. When someone walked the ground in December 1982, they found scrubland and rock outcrop, and within it a roughly circular enclosure about 25 metres in diameter. Enclosures of this general type, defined by stone walls and of broadly circular plan, are common features of the Irish archaeological landscape, often associated with early medieval settlement or landholding. What remained here was modest: a low wall of large limestone blocks, constructed with two faces on the southern side and reaching no more than 0.8 metres in height, with a width of around 1.4 metres at that point. A collapsed modern field wall had been built across part of the same line, the kind of layering that happens when a landscape is farmed for generations without anyone necessarily knowing what lies underneath. By 2018, aerial imagery showed that the area had been absorbed into the green space of a new housing estate, and the enclosure appears to have been levelled entirely.