Walk there today and you will find nothing. No earthwork, no ridge in the grass, no trace of the boundary that was legible enough, at some point, for a cartographer to plot it. The enclosure exists now only as a notation on paper.

Enclosures of this kind, typically ringforts or the remnants of early medieval settlement boundaries, were once so common across the Irish countryside that thousands were recorded before agriculture, drainage, and development quietly erased them. Many survived long enough to be mapped in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which is how this one, oval in plan and oriented roughly northwest to southeast, made it onto the third edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey sheet published in 1933. Its dimensions, approximately fifty metres on the longer axis and forty metres across, suggest a modest enclosed space, consistent with the kind of domestic or agricultural enclosure that would have been entirely unremarkable in its own time. What is unremarkable now is that it has gone entirely.