What once stood here, however, has been entirely levelled, leaving a site that exists now almost exclusively in maps and aerial photography rather than in anything a visitor could put a hand to.

The enclosure is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, typically a circular area of raised ground ringed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, which served as a farmstead and status marker during the early medieval period. This one was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1837 and 1930, appearing on both as a roughly circular enclosure. The 1930 edition added detail: a fosse (a defensive ditch) and an external bank were visible, the bank having been absorbed into a field boundary along the western half. That practical reuse of ancient earthworks as later field divisions is common across Ireland, and it is often what saves a trace of such features at all. Here, even that has not been enough. Aerial photography suggests the site may originally have had two external banks with intervening fosses, pointing to a more elaborate enclosure than a single-bank rath, but at ground level today there is nothing to see. The pasture has swallowed it completely.