The enclosure it accommodates has been levelled, the landowner confirms, roughly within living memory, yet the ground still holds the memory of it: a shallow depression traces the line of the former fosse, the defensive or boundary ditch that once defined the site, running approximately 25 metres north to south and 29 metres east to west. That a working farm boundary should bend to avoid it suggests the enclosure carried enough presence, or enough practical inconvenience, to be worked around rather than simply absorbed.

The site first appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1843, recorded as a circular enclosure on a break in the north-facing slope of a hill. By the 1904 edition, trees had established themselves in the interior, a detail that matters because a cluster of old trees growing within a roughly circular boundary is sometimes the only above-ground indicator of a historic enclosure. Such features in the Irish landscape range from early medieval ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads, to much earlier prehistoric enclosures, and the tree cover noted on the later map has prompted a possible reclassification of this site as a tree-ring, a term used when the vegetation pattern itself becomes the primary surviving evidence of a circular earthwork. Without excavation, the original purpose and date of the Boherlody enclosure remain open questions.