The site at Davidstown survives not as a visible monument but as a barely perceptible rise in the grass, the ghost of a scarp that once defined a circular enclosure roughly 55 metres across. An enclosure, in this context, is exactly what it sounds like: a defined area set apart from its surroundings by an earthen bank or ditch, and in Ireland such forms are associated with a wide range of uses across many centuries, from settlement and farming to ceremonial purposes. What makes this one quietly interesting is precisely how little of it remains, and how that near-disappearance can itself be read as a kind of history.

The 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map and the 1837 OS Fair Plan both record something here, though what they show is a small rectangular field rather than a circular enclosure, with approximate dimensions of 51 metres northeast to southwest and 36 metres northwest to southeast, sitting alongside a field boundary. By the time the revised 25-inch OS map was produced in 1913, even that trace had gone. The site was never marked as an antiquity on any edition of the six-inch map, meaning it slipped past the surveyors' classification as something ancient or notable. When the earthwork was described in 1983, it had already been levelled, surviving only as a low scarp best preserved along its eastern to western arc, on the south side of a modern field boundary. The northern portion can still be traced as a very slight rise in the ground. The clearest evidence for the circular plan comes not from walking the field but from aerial photography, where the outline becomes just legible from above.