The two are not the same structure, but they echo each other so closely that the newer wall may well have been built to trace the outline of what came before, a circular enclosure that had already begun to disappear from the landscape long before anyone thought to record it formally.

The enclosure first appears on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, drawn as a circle roughly 35 metres in diameter. Circular enclosures of this kind are a common feature of the Irish countryside, typically interpreted as the remains of ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads that were the basic unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland. By the time the 1922 edition of the same map was produced, the feature had been partially levelled. When archaeologists examined the site in September 1982, they found only a wall footing of massive stones surviving along an arc running from the north-east, through the east, and round to the west-south-west. At that western end the wall made a distinct dog-leg and ran north-north-west to connect with the modern drystone wall, which curves around to enclose a small tree copse to the north-west. The visible remains by that point measured roughly 25 metres across, suggesting either further loss of the original circuit or that the 1838 survey had captured a slightly wider outline than what was actually there.

What makes this site quietly interesting is less what survives and more what the juxtaposition of old and new reveals. The modern wall did not erase the earlier one so much as absorb its logic, bending in the same direction, for the same approximate reasons, across the same piece of ground. The massive stone footings that remain along the eastern arc give a sense of the original construction, heavy and deliberate, even if the full circuit is long gone.