This was once an ecclesiastical enclosure, a type of boundary that early Irish churches drew around their sacred ground, typically a raised or banked perimeter that defined the spiritual and practical limits of a monastic or church community. The bank here has long since been levelled, and the western half of the site was obliterated by quarrying at some point after its first recorded appearance on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842, though it still appeared on the second edition of 1904. What survives is legible mainly from the air, where aerial photography has confirmed the circular outline that the ground itself no longer makes obvious.

Within that circle, two features speak to what the enclosure once contained. A burial ground occupies the southern quadrant, a reminder that early Irish ecclesiastical sites routinely combined the functions of church, community, and cemetery within a single bounded space. In the northern quadrant lies a souterrain, an underground stone-built passage or chamber that early medieval communities used variously for storage, refuge, or both. The combination of a formal enclosure, a burial ground, and a souterrain points to a site with deep roots, likely in the early medieval period, even if the above-ground structures that once gave it its character have not survived.