The land has been improved, grazed, and worked over long enough that no visible surface trace remains, yet the site continues to appear in the archaeological record as a place that once held, or possibly held, a rath, the term for a ring-fort of the early medieval period typically used as a farmstead enclosure.

The earliest modern documentation comes from John O'Donovan, the scholar and topographer who worked on the Ordnance Survey's place-name and antiquities project in the late 1830s. Writing between 1838 and 1840, O'Donovan noted two small raths, partly defaced, on the northern side of this townland. The first edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1838 records one of these as a circular enclosure of approximately fifteen metres in diameter, sitting on a gentle north-west facing slope. By the time formal monument registers were compiled in the late twentieth century, the classification had softened: listed simply as an enclosure in 1986, and then as only a possible enclosure in 1995, reflecting the difficulty of confirming a site that the landscape had largely absorbed. The shrinking confidence in that record is itself a kind of small history, tracing the moment when a feature visible to O'Donovan's generation became invisible to ours.