The oval enclosure recorded here measured roughly 30 metres along its northeast-southwest axis and about 23 metres across the other way, dimensions that place it comfortably in the range of a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that dots the Irish countryside in the thousands, most of them dating from the early medieval period.

When the Ordnance Survey produced its first edition six-inch maps in 1839, the enclosure was still visible and recorded in reasonable detail. The cartographers noted not only the oval itself but a quarry pushing out from its northwestern side, and two field boundaries running eastward from the northern and southern edges of the monument. By the time the next comparable mapping was carried out, around 1900, the enclosure had vanished from the record entirely. Whatever remained of any bank or ditch had been levelled in the intervening decades, almost certainly through agricultural improvement, the same process that erased similar monuments across the country throughout the nineteenth century. The quarry noted in 1839 may even have contributed material used in that levelling, or in the construction of surrounding field walls.

What the depression in the ground preserves, quietly, is the outline of something that outlasted centuries of use and weather only to disappear within a single generation of intensive land clearance. The 1839 map becomes, in effect, the only real record of what stood here, and the slight hollow in the grass is the only physical confirmation that the map was telling the truth.