Walk the site today and you would find nothing obviously out of place; the earthwork has been levelled, the perimeter gone. But from above, on a warm July day in 2018, the ghost of it reappeared. Captured in satellite imagery, a cropmark, the faint differential in how plants grow over disturbed or compacted soil, traced out the D-shaped outline of something that once organised this patch of landscape in a deliberate and structured way.

The enclosure was still substantial enough to map when the Ordnance Survey came through in 1839, recording it on their first-edition six-inch sheets as a D-shaped form measuring roughly 54 metres northwest to southeast and 46 metres northeast to southwest. That is a sizeable enclosure, comparable in scale to many ringforts, the circular or near-circular enclosed farmsteads that were the typical rural settlement type in early medieval Ireland. The D-shape is a recognised variant, often formed when a natural feature such as a riverbank or ridge defined one straight edge. The OS surveyors returned for the revision of 1899 to 1902 and the enclosure was still legible then, though already compromised: a field boundary ran along the southern perimeter, either folded into the enclosure's edge or cutting across it, and another short boundary extended from the northwest angle. It is that southern field boundary which still stands, a surviving hedge or earthen bank, while the enclosure it once abutted has been absorbed entirely into the agricultural ground around it.