Listed on official heritage registers throughout the 1990s and marked on Ordnance Survey mapping as far back as 1916, it carries the weight of ancient precedent without, it seems, actually being ancient.

When surveyors examined the site in 1999, what they found was a roughly circular enclosure about seventeen metres in internal diameter, defined by a loosely built stone wall with a gap facing south-east. The construction appeared to be modern rather than prehistoric or early medieval. It sits on a flat terrace with higher ground rising to the east, tucked within a larger field system that itself has its own heritage listing. The original designation as an enclosure, a term that in Irish archaeology typically refers to a defined, bounded area of early settlement or agricultural activity, had apparently been carried forward from the 1916 map without anyone inspecting the ground beneath the label. When someone finally did, the stone wall told a more modest story.