No earthwork breaks the surface of the pasture, no bank or ditch catches the eye, and nothing announces that this is a site of archaeological record at all. What survives is essentially a shape on a map, an inverted L traced in hachured lines, the old surveyor's shorthand for an earthen feature, on the 1913 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map.

The enclosure's obscurity runs deeper than simple neglect. When the OS first surveyed the area in 1837, the feature was not recorded at all, which suggests that by the nineteenth century it had already been reduced to something only faintly legible on the ground. By the time the 1913 edition captured it, the surveyors could at least make out enough of its form to commit that irregular L-shape to paper. Enclosures of this kind, typically defined by an earthen bank and external ditch, were a common feature of early medieval Ireland, used variously to demarcate farmsteads, ringforts, or ceremonial spaces. Whatever purpose this one served, and whoever built it, the land has long since closed over the evidence.