The cartographers recorded it with hachures, the small radiating lines surveyors used to indicate an enclosure or mound rising from the surrounding ground. By 1997, when someone went to look at the spot directly, there was nothing to see. The field had been reclaimed as pasture, and whatever earthwork once occupied that gentle ridge had been levelled entirely into the landscape.

What makes the site worth noting is precisely this gap between the documentary record and the physical reality. The enclosure, if that is what it was, sat in a position that would have been carefully chosen: towards the eastern end of the spur, with land falling away to the east and south, and a turlough lying immediately to the north. A turlough is a seasonally flooding lake, characteristic of the limestone karst of counties Clare, Galway, and Roscommon, where water rises and retreats through the underlying rock according to the time of year. Enclosures sited near turloughs appear elsewhere in the Irish record, and the combination of elevated ground and a reliable, if intermittent, water source close by suggests the location was not chosen casually. Whether the feature was a ringfort, a burial mound, or something else entirely, the maps alone cannot say, and the ground no longer offers any answer.