No bank, no ditch, no ridge in the grass betrays what was once substantial enough to be recorded clearly on the Ordnance Survey map of 1838. Whatever form it took, it has since been levelled entirely, leaving the land smooth and unremarkable.

Circular enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape. They range from the ringforts of the early medieval period, which served as enclosed farmsteads, to prehistoric ditched enclosures of less certain purpose. The 1838 OS mapping, part of the first large-scale systematic survey of Ireland, captured many such features that were already under pressure from agricultural improvement and land clearance. This particular example, catalogued as part of an archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district compiled by D. Lavelle in 1994, had by that point already vanished from the surface entirely. The survey covers the wider area around Lough Mask and Lough Carra, a landscape with considerable archaeological depth, and this enclosure was one entry among many, notable now mainly for its absence.