It measures an estimated twenty-three metres across and is defined, if that is the right word, by a low bank so thoroughly grassed over that it barely announces itself. You would almost certainly walk past it without registering that anything was there at all.

The site came to attention through the work of Jean-Charles Caillere, whose observation was confirmed by aerial imagery. Enclosures of this kind, sometimes called ringforts or raths, were among the most common settlement forms in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as the fortified homesteads of farming families, with the surrounding bank and ditch offering a degree of protection for livestock and inhabitants alike. What makes the Carrickevy example quietly interesting is that it does not sit in isolation. A second enclosure of the same general type lies only around twenty metres to the north-east, making this a paired arrangement on what is otherwise unremarkable pasture beside a small lough. Paired or clustered enclosures are not unheard of in the Irish landscape, and their proximity can suggest extended family settlement, successive phases of occupation, or simply the practical logic of grouping domestic spaces near water. Without excavation, the relationship between the two remains a matter of inference.