What was once a discrete enclosure has been quietly dismantled by centuries of farming, its outline surviving less as an upstanding monument and more as a sequence of clues, a curving field boundary here, a cropmark there, the land itself holding a faint memory of an earlier arrangement.

The enclosure first appears labelled as a 'Fort' on the 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the term used at the time for the circular earthworks known in Irish archaeology as ringforts, farmsteads enclosed by an earthen bank, and sometimes a surrounding ditch, that were built and occupied from roughly the early medieval period onwards. By 1911, when the OS resurveyed at the larger 25-inch scale, a field boundary running north-west to south-east had already been built directly across the monument, cutting through its south-south-west to west-north-west arc. When the site was examined on the ground in 1976, the enclosure measured approximately 37 metres in diameter. The low earthen bank was reasonably well preserved on the western and northern sides, but heavily overgrown to the south, and the original entrance could no longer be identified. Traces of a possible external fosse, the shallow ditch that would have accompanied the bank, were still faintly visible at the west. Inside the enclosure, faint cultivation ridges ran north to south, evidence of later agricultural use that postdated whatever the enclosure was originally built for.

Aerial photography has since confirmed what ground-level inspection alone cannot easily show: the surviving arc of the monument is visible both as a curving field boundary and as a cropmark, the differential growth of crops above buried features producing a ghostly outline in dry conditions. It is the kind of site that rewards patience and the right season rather than a casual visit, more meaningful when the crop is short and the light is low.