It sits on a gentle rise within what was once marshy ground, and it leaves no trace at eye level. The only evidence that anything is there at all comes from a map drawn in 1843.

The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, produced during the great cartographic project that systematically documented Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, recorded the site as a roughly circular area marked out by a dashed line. That kind of notation typically indicated an earthwork of some kind, perhaps the remains of a ringfort or enclosure, the sort of circular banked boundary that was once a common feature of the Irish rural landscape. By the time the ground was drained and converted to pasture, whatever physical form it had once taken had been smoothed away or buried. The marshy terrain that originally surrounded it, and may to some degree have protected it, is now agricultural land.