The ground here gives nothing away, just improved pasture rolling over the rounded glacial hill, with boggy ground stretching out to the north and northwest and mixed grassland to the southwest. Nothing breaks the surface to suggest that anything was ever here, yet two separate Ordnance Survey maps, drawn more than eighty years apart, both recorded a circular enclosure roughly twenty-five metres across, roughly the size of a ringfort, sitting prominently on this very rise.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths or lios, were enclosed farmsteads typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. They were built in their thousands across Ireland, and their elevated positions were chosen deliberately, offering both visibility and a degree of natural defence. The enclosure at Tavraun appears on the six-inch OS map of 1838 and again on the 1919 edition, which suggests it was still a visible feature well into the twentieth century. At some point after that, agricultural improvement erased it entirely. A drain or stream running about fifty metres downslope to the north, following the townland boundary, and Lough Gower lying around three hundred metres to the west, would have made this a reasonably well-watered and practical location for early settlement. A related site, a rath, survives about three hundred metres to the south, and its continued existence makes the disappearance of the Tavraun enclosure feel more pointed by comparison, two sites that once shared a landscape, now mismatched in their survival.