The rectangular outline was recorded on the 1914 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, carefully noted by surveyors who could evidently see something worth marking. Stand on the same ground today, however, and there is nothing to find, no earthwork, no shadow in the grass, no trace that the eye can follow.

Enclosures of this kind, broadly defined as bounded areas set apart from their surroundings by a ditch, bank, wall, or fence, appear throughout the Irish countryside in enormous variety. Some were early medieval farmsteads, others may have served a ritual or funerary purpose, and many remain impossible to date without excavation. What made this one visible to nineteenth and early twentieth century surveyors, and what has since erased it, is not recorded. Centuries of agricultural use, drainage work, or simple settling of the soil can reduce a modest earthwork to nothing detectable at ground level, leaving only the cartographic trace as evidence that anything was ever there.