It is the kind of site that rewards map-reading far more than walking, a feature that was once substantial enough to be legible from a distance but is now, by most practical measures, gone.

The enclosure was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, which means it was still a visible presence in the landscape at that point, complete with an outer bank along its eastern side. Enclosures of this type, roughly circular or oval earthworks defined by banks and sometimes ditches, were a common feature of early medieval Ireland, used variously as farmsteads, ceremonial spaces, or settlement boundaries. At around seventy metres in diameter, this one would have been a fairly substantial example. Its position on a gentle south-west facing slope at Crone More in County Wicklow suggests a deliberate choice of aspect, the kind of orientation that offered shelter and reasonable drainage. What happened in the intervening years between its mapping in 1838 and its disappearance is the familiar story of land consolidation, field boundaries removed, topsoil disturbed or levelled, the subtle rises and hollows that once defined the earthwork smoothed away by successive generations of farming.