The other half has vanished so completely that there is no trace of it on the ground, leaving a kind of archaeological ellipsis: a structure that is more absence than presence.

What remains is the north-western arc of an enclosure that once measured roughly 35 metres in diameter. It takes the form of an earth and stone bank, somewhere between two and two and a half metres wide, that stands about half a metre above the ground on its outer face and considerably more, around 1.2 metres, on the inner side. Tucked against that inner face are traces of a revetment, small boulders used to reinforce and retain the bank. Enclosures of this general type, roughly circular earthworks typically used in early medieval Ireland to define a farmstead or settlement, are sometimes called ringforts, though without excavation it is impossible to say exactly how or when this one was used. What is clear is that the 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the full circle, meaning the enclosure was still legible as a complete form in the early nineteenth century. In the roughly 170 years between that survey and the most recent examination of the site, the south-eastern half was lost entirely, absorbed into the surrounding pasture without leaving any detectable bank, fosse, or entrance behind.