No bank, no ditch, no ridge in the grass marks it out. The site is known only through what two nineteenth and twentieth-century maps recorded, and by the time anyone thought to look closely, the ground had already given nothing away.

The first record comes from the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which plotted a subcircular enclosure measuring roughly 35 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west. Subcircular enclosures of this kind are commonly associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, the most familiar form being the ringfort, a circular or near-circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and ditches that once surrounded a farmstead or small defended homestead. By the time the 1921 Ordnance Survey edition was produced, the feature had shrunk on the map as well as on the ground, recorded now only as a depression, and a considerably smaller one at that, around 24 metres east to west and 20 metres north to south. Somewhere in the intervening eighty-odd years, the enclosure had been reduced, perhaps ploughed out, perhaps gradually absorbed by agricultural improvement, until only a hollow remained. After 1921, even that disappeared.