On Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare, a small circular enclosure is marked near Ballitore, its outline precise enough to suggest that whatever stood there was still legible in the landscape at the time of surveying. That cartographic detail is, in many ways, the most concrete thing we know about it.

The enclosure's position on a slope points towards a possible ringfort origin. Ringforts, which are circular enclosed settlements typically dating from the early medieval period, are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish countryside, yet individually many remain poorly documented. Thousands were built as farmsteads between roughly the sixth and tenth centuries, and their earthen banks, though often eroded or ploughed away over time, can persist for well over a thousand years. The fact that this one was considered notable enough to mark on a county map in the late eighteenth century implies that its earthworks were still reasonably visible then. Whether they survived the following two centuries of agricultural change is another matter entirely.