When soil disturbance from buried features affects how plants grow above them, the difference in crop colour and height can betray what lies beneath, and aerial photography has long been one of the primary ways such sites are identified across Ireland. Here, the enclosure shows up in that ghostly, photographic way, its outline recorded in the Sites and Monuments Record and noted through personal communication with archaeologist T. Condit.

The ground rises gently toward the location of the site, which may be one reason the enclosure has survived in any meaningful sense at all. Elevated positions were frequently chosen for enclosed settlements or ceremonial sites in early medieval and prehistoric Ireland, offering both visibility and a degree of natural drainage. What its original function was remains unconfirmed by the available record. What is clear is that the area around it has attracted considerable archaeological attention in more recent times. Metro North infrastructure testing took place directly to the east of the enclosure, and further north within the same field, that work led to the identification of a ring ditch, recorded in the Sites and Monuments Record as DU011-130. Ring ditches are typically the ploughed-out or eroded remains of burial mounds, and finding one in the same field as a crop-mark enclosure suggests this part of Lissenhall Little held some significance over a long period.

The site is not accessible as a visitor destination and there is nothing to see at ground level. The enclosure has no visible surface expression, which is precisely what makes it archaeologically interesting and practically invisible. Anyone curious about it would find more satisfaction in looking at the aerial record held by bodies such as the Discovery Programme or the National Monuments Service than in visiting the field itself. The surrounding north Dublin landscape, increasingly developed in recent decades, gives little outward sign of what the subsoil continues to hold.