What remains today is a slightly raised oval of ground, roughly twenty metres north to south and twenty-four metres east to west, lifting no more than sixty centimetres above the surrounding pasture. It is easy to walk past without registering it as anything other than a gentle irregularity in the grass. Yet this modest swelling was once a defined enclosure, the kind of enclosed space, probably ringed by an earthen bank or wall, that appears in large numbers across the Irish countryside and which archaeologists associate with a broad range of uses, from settlement and farming to ritual or burial.

What makes this particular spot quietly curious is the disagreement between two sets of maps. The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 shows a square enclosure, drawn with hachures to indicate an earthwork, sitting up against a field boundary to the west. By the time the same area was surveyed again in 1902, the shape recorded was circular. Whether the enclosure itself changed form between those two surveys, or whether the earlier cartographers were working from incomplete observation, is not clear. What is certain is that by the time anyone looked closely at the ground, the structure had been levelled entirely, leaving only the slight oval rise that can still be detected in the pasture. The site commands a view towards the sea, which may or may not have mattered to whoever built it, but it places the enclosure in a landscape that has been used and watched and altered for a very long time.