The trees were planted around the year 2000, and aerial photography from that same period shows the enclosure holding its own space within them, the ground left open around it as the plantation took hold on all sides.

The enclosure was already being mapped in 1839, when the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch series recorded its outline, and it appeared again on the revision carried out between 1899 and 1902, suggesting the feature had remained legible in the landscape across at least six decades of cartographic attention. Circular enclosures of this general kind are a common feature of the Irish countryside, ranging from prehistoric ringforts, which served as enclosed farmsteads, to later ecclesiastical or agricultural enclosures, though the available record for this particular example does not specify its function or period. What can be said is that two generations of surveyors considered it worth marking, which is its own quiet form of evidence.