That is precisely what makes this site interesting. Beneath the gently south-south-westward-sloping ground, there are no earthworks, no raised banks, no ditches; nothing at all breaks the surface to suggest that anything was ever here. The enclosure exists now only as a cartographic ghost.

The first Ordnance Survey six-inch map, produced around 1840, recorded a sub-rectangular enclosure at this location, its northern edge defined by a road and its western side following a field boundary. Enclosures of this kind, broadly speaking, are among the most common archaeological feature types in Ireland, ranging from prehistoric ringforts to early medieval farmsteads, and their sub-rectangular form often distinguishes them from the more typical circular ringfort. By the time the second edition of the same map was published, somewhere between 1904 and 1905, the enclosure had been dropped from the record entirely. Whether it had been levelled by then, or simply overlooked by the later surveyors, is not clear. What the maps together suggest is a feature that was barely holding on even in the nineteenth century, and which has since vanished without leaving the faintest impression on the land above it.