It is the kind of feature that registers faintly on a map before fading from notice entirely, yet the cartographic record hints at something that was once more visible, and perhaps more numerous, than anything surviving today.

When the first edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map was produced in 1838, the enclosure was drawn in the style of a rath, the term used for a roughly circular earthen bank and ditch enclosing a farmstead, typically from the early medieval period in Ireland. Raths are among the most common field monuments in the country, yet individual examples vary considerably in their preservation and legibility. Accompanying OS Name Books from 1838 to 1840 record not one but three such features in the townland, described as "3 small Forts or Raths in the Tld.", suggesting a cluster of related enclosures that once marked out this patch of Wicklow as a place of some agricultural or social significance. By the time the second edition maps were published in 1907, the site appears as a plain circular area outlined by a solid line, the earlier interpretive conventions stripped away, the earthwork reduced to geometry on paper.