That absence is, in its own way, the point. A circular earthwork once occupied this spot, roughly twenty metres across, sitting within a D-shaped wooded enclosure and defined by field boundaries that have since vanished entirely. What kind of enclosure it was, and who made it, is no longer possible to say with certainty. Circular enclosures of this kind are a broad category in the Irish landscape, ranging from early medieval ringforts, which served as defended farmsteads, to later features of entirely different character. This one has been swallowed by land reclamation, leaving the ground to say very little.

The 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded a roughly circular enclosure here, sitting within that D-shaped wooded area, itself bounded by field boundaries on all sides. By the 1930 edition, the cartographic language had already shifted: the enclosure was shown only as a hachured arc curving from the south-east to the west, suggesting that even by then its form was partly lost or degraded. The woodland that framed it on both maps is now gone, as are almost all the surrounding field boundaries. One feature survives: a north-east to south-west property fence that once formed the north-western side of the wooded area. Everything else has been cleared. The rise itself remains, and a contoured scarp can still be traced along its south-western and western edges, though whether that scarp is a remnant of the original enclosure or simply a natural feature of the landform is uncertain.