The feature does not announce itself; there is no visible trace on the surface, no raised bank, no hollow, nothing to catch the eye. The only clear evidence that something once existed here comes from the 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which recorded it plainly enough, even if local memory has since let the classification go.

More intriguing, perhaps, is what lies just to the north-east of the enclosure. In dry weather, when the ground contracts and the grass thins, the rectangular foundations of a building occasionally ghost into view. Local tradition holds that this was an old court known as the Shan Court, though no such name or structure appears on the 1840 map, suggesting either that the building was already gone or simply overlooked by the time the surveyors passed through. At some point after the building fell or was dismantled, the National Museum of Ireland is said to have removed the stone flags or slates that once formed part of it. Those stones were notably thick and were considered of sufficient interest, probably on account of their potential medieval age, to be taken away for study or preservation. That removal, quiet and unannounced as it apparently was, is itself a detail worth sitting with; it means that somewhere in a collection, fragments of the Shan Court likely still exist, even as the place itself has almost entirely dissolved back into farmland.