A ringfort, the circular earthwork enclosure used across Ireland from the early medieval period onward as a farmstead and place of protection, once stood here, but the land has long since swallowed it. What makes this site quietly strange is how it persisted in the cartographic record without ever being recognised as an antiquity at all. Every edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps marked the spot, but labelled it only as a grove of trees, the telltale oval outline of raised earth and vegetation read by surveyors as woodland rather than archaeology.

The 1837 Ordnance Survey Field Name Books are more forthcoming. Under this townland, the compilers recorded the existence of three ancient forts, a count that corresponds to this site and at least one neighbouring monument, a levelled ringfort that survives as a separate record around 160 metres to the south-south-west. The 1911 edition of the twenty-five-inch Ordnance Survey map shows the possible monument as a roughly oval grove, with field boundaries cutting across it from the south-south-west, west, and north, suggesting the enclosure had already been substantially disturbed by agricultural reorganisation over the preceding decades. By the time a Digital Globe aerial photograph was taken in November 2011, nothing remained to be seen. No trace of the earthwork, and no trace of those intersecting field boundaries either. The landscape had been smoothed so thoroughly that two layers of history had disappeared together.