What makes the site quietly puzzling is not its absence but its shape-shifting: the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1837 to 1838 shows it as a circular enclosure roughly 25 metres in diameter, the kind of form typically associated with early medieval ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads defined by an earthen bank and ditch. By the time the 1922 edition was produced, the same feature had been recorded as D-shaped, its straight western side running along a north-south field boundary. Whether the enclosure genuinely changed form in the intervening decades, or whether the two surveys were simply interpreting the same degraded earthwork differently, is impossible to say now.

The site sits on top of a ridge in Carrownaglogh, close to the point where the ground drops sharply southward towards the river some 80 metres below. That positioning, elevated and with a pronounced fall on one side, is broadly consistent with how many early enclosures were sited, favoring ground that offered natural defensive advantage or simply good drainage for a working farmstead. Today there is no visible surface trace remaining. The pasture has swallowed whatever earthworks once defined the perimeter, and the field boundary that gave the 1922 enclosure its flat western edge is all that survives in the landscape to hint at an older arrangement of space.