It does not announce itself with earthworks or exposed stonework. There is, according to those who have looked, no surface trace visible at ground level. What survives is cartographic rather than physical, an outline on paper where something once stood or was enclosed.

The enclosure's story is largely a story of absence and timing. When the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map series in 1837, no enclosure was marked at this location. By the time the 1912 edition was compiled, it appeared, depicted as a roughly rectangular feature set into the mixed mature deciduous woodland that covers the slope. Whether that gap reflects the enclosure's construction, its rediscovery by surveyors, or simply an earlier oversight is impossible to say with the evidence available. Enclosures of this kind in Ireland range widely in age and function, from early medieval farmsteads to post-medieval field boundaries, and without excavation or further survey, this one offers no clear indication of which tradition it belongs to. The woodland itself may be partly responsible for its invisibility; tree roots, leaf mould, and shifting ground over decades can reduce even substantial earthworks to nothing a visitor would recognise underfoot.