A flat area roughly 11.2 metres across, enclosed by a low earthen bank no more than 0.6 metres high, it was modest enough to be ambiguous: too neat to ignore, too plain to confidently classify. When it appeared on the 1939 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, it was marked as a small circular mound, sitting immediately west of a standing stone, the kind of proximity that might tempt a person toward ancient significance.

The archaeologist P. J. Hartnett recorded it in 1939 but stopped short of any firm interpretation, noting that similar circular enclosures appeared fairly regularly across the demesnes of the district, most likely serving as shelters for cattle. A demesne, in the Irish context, typically refers to the private parkland attached to a landed estate, managed for both practical and aesthetic purposes, and these enclosures seem to have belonged to the working fabric of such estates rather than to any older ceremonial landscape. The standing stone nearby adds a layer of coincidence that is probably just that: coincidence. A comparable feature lies roughly 150 metres to the north-west, which lends some weight to the idea that these were repeated, functional elements of the same estate design rather than anything more singular. Whatever their original purpose, both the woodland that once surrounded this site and the earthwork itself are gone. The trees were cleared around 1984, and the site was levelled, leaving the 1939 map and Hartnett's cautious note as the main record of what had been there.