Look more carefully and a pattern emerges: the enclosure is too deliberate, the bank too consistent, and the whole arrangement too considered to be accidental. This is almost certainly a designed landscape feature, the kind of ornamental planting that Georgian and Victorian landowners scattered across their estates to create pleasing views, frame vistas, or simply impose a sense of order on the countryside around them.

The enclosure is ovoid in plan, measuring roughly 58 metres on its northeast to southwest axis and 64 metres across. The earthen bank that defines it stands about 0.8 metres high on the interior and slightly more, around 1.1 metres, on the exterior, with stone facing along the northern and south-southeastern stretch. Inside, a naturally occurring hillock rises sharply some 12.4 metres, its north face heavily eroded and almost sheer. A concentration of mature deciduous trees clings to that northern face, and field boundaries press up against the outside of the bank at the north and south-southeast. The feature appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1841, already shown planted with trees, and its position adjacent to the demesne of Ballynoe House strongly suggests it was conceived as part of the wider designed landscape around that property. Demesnes of this kind, the enclosed private estates of the Anglo-Irish gentry, frequently incorporated such eye-catchers and tree-clumps as focal points in the view from the house or its grounds.

The site sits on rough pasture today, which means access depends on the goodwill of the landowner and the season. The trees are likely most visible in winter, when bare branches make the shape of the planting easier to read against the hillside. The bank itself is most legible from the outside, particularly along the northern arc where the stone facing survives. The interior is uneven underfoot given the steep ground and eroded hillock face, so sturdy footwear is advisable. The wider ridge above offers context for understanding why this particular slope was chosen for a feature that would have been visible from the demesne below.