It never appeared on any edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, meaning that for generations of cartographers and local historians alike, it simply did not exist on paper. Its presence was only confirmed when aerial photography brought it into view, the kind of oblique or vertical survey image that routinely reveals earthworks invisible at ground level.

The enclosure was levelled during the 1960s, a decade when agricultural improvement schemes across Ireland erased a considerable number of earthwork features, often legally and without any sense that something of age was being lost. Despite this, the outline has not entirely vanished. The northern, eastern, and southern sides can still be read in the ground as a scarp, a low step in the earth roughly 0.6 metres high, while the western side survives as a gentle rise. These are subtle traces, the kind that reward patience and low-angle light rather than a quick glance from a field gate.