A solitary beech tree marks the western edge of a gentle rise, a few remnants of field wall cross its southern side, and that is more or less all there is to see. The hillock itself is real enough, with a flattish top measuring roughly fifteen metres east to west and nine metres north to south, and a broad slope falling away to the north. But the oval enclosure that once seemed to occupy this spot has left no visible trace whatsoever.

The enclosure, roughly fifteen to twenty metres across on its longest axis, appears clearly on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, drawn during the first systematic mapping of Ireland, a project that captured field boundaries, earthworks, and features that were already ancient or already fading by the time the surveyors arrived. By later map editions, the enclosure had been dropped entirely. Whether it had already disappeared by then, or whether the cartographers simply chose not to record it again, is impossible to say now. Enclosures of this kind in the Irish countryside can represent many things, from early medieval ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, to later agricultural or garden features. In this case, the ground itself offers no remaining clues. The setting is still legible: pasture land sloping gently toward a stream or drain about eighty metres to the north, with a woodland-covered ridge rising to the south. It is a contained, readable landscape. The thing it was once said to contain, however, has gone.