There is no ditch, no visible entrance, no trace of any structure within. The enclosure is defined partly by existing field boundaries and partly by a low scarp, a subtle change in ground level that would be easy to miss if you were not specifically looking for it. It is precisely this ambiguity that makes the site interesting: an enclosure without obvious purpose, without the features that archaeologists usually rely upon to identify what a place once was.

Enclosures of this kind are among the more enigmatic categories of earthwork found across Ireland. Without a fosse, the surrounding ditch that typically accompanies defended or ceremonially bounded sites, and without internal features, it is difficult to assign the site confidently to any particular period or function. It may have served as a livestock enclosure, a burial ground, or something with a ritual dimension; the archaeology simply does not say. What is known is that the enclosure was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, meaning it was visible and legible in the landscape at that point, and had presumably been so for some considerable time beforehand. The 1838 survey is one of the most detailed early cartographic records of the Irish countryside, and its inclusion of a feature like this suggests the enclosure retained a clear enough outline to be worth marking even then.