The ground offers no clue: no earthwork, no raised bank, no crop mark visible to a passing eye. What is recorded here is, in essence, an absence, a place known to have been an enclosure, but one that has sunk so completely into the surrounding pasture that a visitor could walk across it without any sense that something lies beneath.

In 2006, a fieldworker was brought to the spot by the landowner, who knew it well enough to point to it. The surrounding area carries the local name 'Cahireens', a diminutive form of the Irish word cathair, which refers to a stone fort or enclosure, often a ringfort or similar enclosed settlement. That name, still in use, is frequently the last trace that survives when the physical structure itself has been levelled, ploughed out, or simply worn down over centuries of agricultural use. In this case, the toponym is doing the work the archaeology can no longer do.