On a south-east-facing slope in Sheshodonnell, County Clare, within a large field system and with open views stretching southward, sits a small D-shaped enclosure defined by a low stone bank. It was the kind of feature that, on a map, can read as something ancient and significant, a possible ring fort or early medieval settlement boundary. The reality, confirmed on inspection, is rather more prosaic.

The site was annotated on a map in 1994, passed along through a personal communication, and duly entered into the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996 under the category of enclosure. When someone actually walked out to examine it in 1997, they found that the construction was modern. The low bank forming that characteristic D-shape, a form that in genuine early Irish enclosures would typically define a farmstead or settlement, here reflects nothing older than the recent past. It remains part of a broader field system in the townland, but its inclusion in the archaeological record stands more as a lesson in how landscape features are catalogued than as a window into any earlier period of activity in Clare.