These enclosures, typically low stone walls forming a ring around a domestic or agricultural space, were a common feature of the early Irish countryside, but this one occupies an odd position in the historical record: visible to cartographers across two separate surveys, yet gone without trace today.

The enclosure was recorded on the Ordnance Survey map produced between 1841 and 1842, one of the most systematic attempts to document the Irish landscape ever undertaken, carried out in the decades before the Famine reshaped rural Ireland so dramatically. It reappeared on the 1898 revision of that map, suggesting it was still a legible feature of the land at the close of the nineteenth century. At some point after that, it disappeared entirely, leaving no surface evidence. The rocky terrain it occupied in Kilgulbin may partly explain this; such ground was difficult to farm and not easily cleared, yet the enclosure's stones could equally have been robbed out for field walls or other local building needs over the intervening decades.

There is nothing to see at the site today, which is itself a kind of point of interest. The gap between what the maps show and what the ground holds is a reminder of how much the Irish landscape carries in its records that it no longer carries in its soil.