A circular enclosure roughly twenty metres across occupies a gentle south-east-facing slope, and yet anyone walking that ground today would find nothing to see. No earthwork, no ridge, no subtle depression in the grass to betray what lies beneath or once stood there. The place is, to the naked eye, simply a field.

What we know of it comes largely from cartographic evidence. The enclosure was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, part of the first systematic mapping of Ireland carried out under the direction of the OS in the 1820s and 1830s. At that time, the surveyors evidently found something worth marking, a circular feature of the kind commonly associated with early medieval settlement, farming activity, or burial. Such enclosures, often called ringforts when used as defended farmsteads, were a familiar feature of the Irish countryside, and tens of thousands of them survive in varying states of preservation. This one, it seems, did not survive well enough to leave any trace above ground.