This is the enclosure at Curraghmulmurry, and its near-invisibility is, in a way, the whole point. Circular enclosures of this kind, typically formed by an earthen bank and sometimes a ditch, were a common feature of early medieval Irish settlement and agriculture, used variously as farmsteads, enclosures for livestock, or boundaries marking out a household's territory. Most have been reduced by centuries of ploughing, grazing, and field clearance to exactly this condition: a faint pressure on the landscape that rewards slow looking.

What survives here is a fragment of earthen bank running from the southern to the west-south-western arc of the circle, though even that is partly buried beneath a later field boundary, as if the landscape simply incorporated it and moved on. The breach at the southern side appears to be a modern intrusion rather than an original entrance, which means the original layout of the enclosure, including where people and animals would have passed in and out, is no longer readable on the ground. The monument sits in pastureland that tilts gently to the north-east, the kind of ordinary agricultural setting where hundreds of similar sites quietly persist across the west of Ireland, unexcavated and largely undated.