It is a modest enough footprint, about the size of a large suburban garden. The unusual thing is that none of it is visible any longer. Whatever boundary, bank, or ditch once defined this enclosure has been absorbed so completely into the surrounding landscape that nothing remains to be seen at ground level.

Enclosures of this kind are scattered across Ireland in considerable numbers, and their origins vary. Some were early medieval farmsteads, a ringfort-type feature defining a domestic or agricultural space. Others served ritual or funerary purposes long before that. Without surviving physical evidence, and without excavation, it is impossible to say which category this particular example might have belonged to. What can be said is that it was legible enough to a nineteenth-century surveyor to be marked on the map, and that sometime between that survey and the present day, it disappeared entirely. Ploughing, land improvement, or simple accumulation of topsoil and vegetation can all erase a low earthwork over a generation or two, and the Wicklow landscape has seen a great deal of agricultural change.