Circular enclosures in Ireland are often genuinely old, ranging from early medieval ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads, to prehistoric ceremonial sites, so it is easy to understand why this one attracted official attention. It appeared on the 1916 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a solid line, the cartographic convention suggesting a structure considered worth recording, and it duly earned a place in both the Sites and Monuments Record in 1992 and the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996.

When someone finally went out to look at it properly in 1999, the enclosure turned out to be a rather more recent piece of work. The circular wall, roughly twenty-six metres in internal diameter, is built from loose thin slabs, and a large gap at the northern side breaks what would otherwise be a complete ring. The construction method and materials pointed firmly toward modern rather than ancient origins. It is not entirely unusual for field walls and enclosures of relatively recent date to be mistaken for early monuments, particularly when they are first identified through maps rather than fieldwork, and this site is a neat example of that particular hazard in the archaeology of the Irish countryside.