No wall survives, no earthwork, no hollow in the ground. The enclosure has been ploughed flat, and the only clue that anything ever stood here comes from the soil itself: after tillage, a patch of black earth is said to appear, the compressed and darkened remnant of whatever once occupied this spot on a south-facing slope.

The site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 as a circular enclosure roughly fifteen metres in diameter. Enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish countryside, typically associated with early medieval settlement, though they range widely in date and function. A fifteen-metre diameter is on the modest end of the scale, suggesting a small farmstead or perhaps a stock enclosure rather than a substantial defended site. By the time anyone thought to document it in detail, the structure had already been levelled, surviving only as a cartographic memory and a discolouration in ploughed ground, the kind of trace that farmers sometimes notice and archaeologists occasionally follow up on. The black earth itself is significant: it tends to indicate concentrated organic activity, the accumulation of centuries of habitation, ash, animal dung, and domestic refuse compacted into the subsoil long after the surface has been disturbed.