8 metres across holds its shape against the bog and briar with quiet stubbornness. It is easy to dismiss as a slight rise in a wet field, but the earthen bank encircling it, and the shallow ditch running along its outer edge, mark this out as a deliberate construction, a place someone once chose to define and enclose. What it contained, or who built it, is not recorded, but the geometry of the thing is still legible if you know where to look.

Enclosures of this kind, earthen banks sometimes paired with an external fosse, that is, a ditch dug to reinforce the boundary, appear across the Irish landscape in various forms and periods, from early medieval ringforts to later enclosures of uncertain purpose. This particular example was documented by Denis Power, whose survey notes were uploaded in August 2011. The bank survives to an internal height of around 0.4 metres and an external height of roughly 1 metre, the difference reflecting how the spoil from the fosse was piled inward and outward during construction. The fosse itself is about 1.2 metres wide where it is best preserved, along the south-south-west to west arc. The north-west to east section of the bank is heavily masked by vegetation, and the western corner has been considerably worn down, with some suggestion in the survey notes that the outer face of the bank may have been quarried at some point, its material carted off for use elsewhere.

The interior is level and marshy, with the northern third overtaken by briars, which makes a close inspection of that section difficult outside of winter when growth dies back a little. The site sits on pasture and is not managed as a heritage feature, so access depends on the usual courtesies of the Irish countryside. The best-preserved sections of both bank and fosse run from the south-south-west around to the west, and that is the arc worth following first to get a sense of the original scale. The marshy ground means that dry spells, or at least waterproof footwear, are advisable. There is nothing spectacular waiting inside, just a damp, briar-choked square of ground that has held its outline for longer than anyone now living can account for.