It appears clearly on the Ordnance Survey map of 1898, a deliberate marking of something substantial enough to be recorded, yet by the time anyone might go looking for it today, it has left no trace whatsoever on the ground.

What makes this particularly curious is the gap between the two great waves of Irish mapping. The earlier Ordnance Survey, carried out between 1841 and 1842, shows nothing at this location. The enclosure appears only on the later 1898 revision, which means it was either newly constructed in the intervening decades, or was already present but missed or omitted in the first survey. Circular enclosures of this kind are a common feature of the Irish landscape, typically earthen ringforts or the remnants of enclosed farmsteads, some of prehistoric origin and others medieval. Whether this one was an ancient feature that the 1841 surveyors simply did not capture, or something built or re-used in the nineteenth century, the record does not say. Either way, sometime between 1898 and the present, it was levelled or eroded entirely out of existence, leaving only its cartographic ghost behind.