That description might conjure something ancient, a ringfort perhaps, or the remnant of an early medieval farmstead. The reality is rather more deflating, and in its own way more interesting for it.

The site was catalogued as an enclosure in both the Sites and Monuments Record in 1992 and the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996, designations that typically flag archaeology of genuine antiquity. When someone actually visited in 1998, however, the structure turned out to be modern. The drystone wall, a technique of dry-laid stone construction with no mortar, is old enough as a building tradition in Ireland, but the enclosure itself belongs to no distant past. It earned its place on official registers through the ambiguity that aerial survey, cartographic interpretation, or desk-based assessment can sometimes produce, and it took a physical inspection to resolve the question. The scrubby hazel woodland around it presumably made the site harder to assess from a distance, and easier to misread as something older lying underneath the vegetation.