It appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 as a subcircular enclosure roughly forty metres in diameter, one side of which is formed not by a dedicated boundary but by an ordinary linear field boundary. That detail alone is quietly telling: it suggests the enclosure's western edge had already been absorbed into the working geometry of agricultural land by the time the surveyors came through, its ancient outline repurposed as a field margin.

Enclosures of this type are generally understood to be the remains of early medieval ringforts, known in Irish as raths or lises, which served as enclosed farmsteads for centuries before and after the early Christian period. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, yet each one carries its own particular history of survival, erasure, and chance preservation. The subcircular shape is typical, as is the diameter, which falls within the normal range for a single-family enclosure. What the 1842 map captured was already a faint impression in the landscape, its original bank and ditch reduced to a curve legible only at the scale of a surveyor's eye.