On a steep north-north-east-facing slope just below the brow of a hill at Tipper, there sits a rectangular enclosure that has been quietly losing itself to time. What remains is a low, stony earthen bank, barely rising above the surrounding pasture in places, tracing out a space roughly 37 metres east to west and 29 metres north to south. Along the southern and western sides, a shallow outer fosse, a defensive ditch, still holds its shape to a depth of around 0.4 metres, wide enough that you can make sense of it underfoot even if it no longer reads clearly at a glance.

The enclosure's origins are not precisely dated, but its form, a banked and ditched rectangular area set into a hillside, fits a pattern of settlement and land management found across early medieval Ireland. What makes this site quietly interesting is the possibility that its interior once contained a souterrain. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with early Irish settlements and used for storage or, in some interpretations, as a place of refuge. The one here appears to have been partially robbed out, meaning its stone was likely removed and reused elsewhere over the centuries, leaving only traces. The enclosure itself was confirmed through aerial photography taken in 2005, suggesting that even in its degraded state, it remained legible from above when ground-level visibility had long since faded.