The ground is level, the pasture unbroken, and nothing rises above the grass to suggest that any structure ever occupied this particular patch of land. What makes this place quietly interesting is precisely that absence: an enclosure that was recorded, mapped, and then effectively erased within the span of a century.

The enclosure appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, marked as a circular feature. A later, more detailed survey on the twenty-five-inch plan recorded it as oval, measuring roughly 35 metres on its north-east to south-west axis and 30 metres across. Enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, typically associated with early medieval settlement, where a roughly circular bank and ditch would have defined a farmstead or family compound. By the time the Ordnance Survey revised its six-inch mapping in 1929, however, the feature had disappeared from the record entirely. At some point between those two surveys, whatever remained of the bank had been levelled, most likely cleared to improve the grazing land. A local archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district, compiled by D. Lavelle and published in 1994, confirms that no surface traces survive today.