It may be a fort, or a habitation site, or something else entirely. The precise nature of the thing is uncertain, and so, in a rather fundamental way, is its location. This is not a place that rewards confident map-marking so much as a place that quietly resists it.

The site first entered the record in 1994, when a small enclosure, fort, or habitation site was reported at a specific grid reference, passed along by a T. Coffey. Enclosures of this kind are among the most common monuments in the Irish landscape: roughly circular or oval areas defined by a bank, ditch, or wall, used variously across many centuries for farming, settlement, or purposes that remain debated. When inspectors returned to the coordinates in 1998, no monument was apparent at that precise location. The area around Kilcorney does contain a number of enclosures, and the honest conclusion drawn at the time was simply that it was unclear which of them the original report referred to, or whether what was described still survives in any visible form.