Visible only in aerial photographs taken between late 2011 and early 2012, the near-circular form sits mostly beneath farmland, its original earthen bank almost entirely gone. The one surviving section has been absorbed into the present townland boundary, which is how ancient enclosures so often endure, quietly reused rather than demolished. Locally, the field was known as the Kyle, and the circular feature itself was called the Burying Pit.

The name Kyle, derived from the Irish word for a wood or narrow church land, is one of the details that points researchers towards an ecclesiastical origin. A roughly circular enclosure of this diameter is consistent with early Irish ecclesiastical sites, where a large bank or cashel wall would have defined the sacred precinct around a church or monastic settlement. The folklore collected by pupils at Ballinree School, preserved in the Schools Collection, adds a later and darker layer to the site. At the centre of the hollow stood a large flat rock, which local tradition held was used as a mass rock during the Penal Laws, the period in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when Catholic worship was banned and Mass was said outdoors in secret. Around this rock, human bones have reportedly been uncovered over the years, and the ground in front of it was said to be a burial place. There is also a strand of local belief that mysterious lights have been seen moving around the site at night, a detail that has sometimes been associated in Irish folklore with cillíní, the informal burial grounds used for unbaptised children and others excluded from consecrated ground. Whether the burials here belong to a medieval ecclesiastical enclosure, a Penal-era community, or a children's burial ground, or some combination of all three across different centuries, remains an open question.