It was not an especially ancient thing in itself, defined by a drystone wall of apparently modern construction enclosing an interior of roughly 30 metres north to south and 28 metres east to west, with a low spread of stone grassed over at the base of the wall. What made it quietly significant was not what it was, but where it was, and what surrounded it. It appeared on the 1916 Ordnance Survey six-inch map but on no earlier edition, suggesting it was likely a post-1700 construction, perhaps a field enclosure or animal pen of relatively recent rural life.

When surveyors visited in 1997, the enclosure was still legible on the ground. By 2006, however, it had been partially destroyed. Unauthorised bulldozing had removed the northern half of the field containing the enclosure, along with the field immediately to the north. Aerial photography from 2005 had captured extensive remains across both fields before they were lost, and what that imagery revealed placed the enclosure in a much larger context. The ground around it was not simply farmland; it was part of a very extensive medieval field system spanning several townlands in the area. Field systems of this kind, the boundaries, plots, and trackways that organised agricultural life across the medieval landscape, are often invisible at ground level but can survive for centuries as low earthworks and spreads of stone. Here, those remains had endured long enough to be photographed, recorded, and then, in significant part, scraped away. The surviving portions of this wider field system remain visible in adjacent fields.