Oval in shape and roughly 25 metres by 20 metres across, it has effectively vanished from the landscape; nothing is visible at ground level today. What remains is its outline on an 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, rendered in hachures, the small radiating lines cartographers of that era used to indicate earthworks, banks, and boundaries that rose above the surrounding terrain. That the feature was legible to a surveyor nearly two centuries ago, but has since been absorbed back into the slope, speaks to how quietly these things disappear.

Enclosures of this kind are among the more common, and more ambiguous, features of the Irish archaeological landscape. They may have served as farmsteads, as animal pounds, as ceremonial spaces, or as something else entirely, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say which. The name Knockatemple, from the Irish meaning something close to "hill of the church", hints at an area with older layers of use and perhaps ecclesiastical association, though the enclosure itself carries no such designation. Its first firm documentation comes from that 1838 survey, which caught it at a moment when it was still, just about, a thing you could see.