What makes them quietly unusual is not their disappearance exactly, but the speed and thoroughness of it: within sixty years of their first documentation, they had been erased from the revised maps entirely, replaced by tree symbols and drainage channels.

The first Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1839, recorded both enclosures on the western edge of a stretch of wet marshy ground. The one in question measured roughly nineteen metres in diameter, a modest roughly circular form, with a near-identical companion sitting only about five metres to its north. Enclosures of this general type are a common feature of the Irish countryside, their origins ranging from the early medieval period through to post-medieval farmsteads, though without excavation it is impossible to say what purpose these particular examples served. Between 1839 and 1900, the marsh was subjected to large-scale drainage, the evidence for which appears clearly on the 1900 revision of the OS six-inch map in the form of new drainage channels cutting across the area. The trees followed, planted across the periphery and, it seems, directly over the enclosures themselves. By the time the revised map was drawn, neither enclosure was considered worth marking.

The site remains under forestry today. The enclosures may still exist as earthworks beneath the tree cover, their low banks or ditches simply hidden rather than destroyed, but no surface survey has confirmed this. It is the kind of place that the nineteenth-century appetite for agricultural improvement quietly swallowed, leaving only the earlier map as evidence that anything was ever there.