A later field boundary cuts across it from the north-east, sweeping round through the south and out to the south-west, as though the working farmland simply decided to organise itself around, and then through, whatever was already there. The enclosure is the kind of feature that tends to disappear from everyday attention even as it endures in the ground.

The site first appears on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1920, where it is recorded as an oval enclosure. Enclosures of this general form are common across Ireland and can date from the early medieval period through to later prehistory; they served a range of purposes, from settlement and ringfort use to agricultural and ceremonial functions, though without excavation it is rarely possible to say more than that. What the 1920 mapping confirms is that the feature was visible and distinct enough to be plotted by surveyors, even if it was already being encroached upon by field boundaries that have since grown more assertive. By the time fieldworkers came to examine it more closely, the site had become effectively inaccessible, sealed off by impenetrable overgrowth. It remains, as far as the record goes, unexamined at ground level.