What makes it unusual is not what survives inside but what does not: no grave-markers, no visible entrance, and no internal features beyond the remains of a church. Most early Christian enclosures of this type, known as ecclesiastical enclosures or termons, show at least some trace of burials or a formal gateway through the boundary bank. Here, the ground simply keeps its secrets.

The enclosure measures roughly 50 metres north to south and 40 metres east to west, defined by an earthen bank approximately 2.5 metres wide, standing up to a metre in height on its outer face and somewhat lower on the inner side. At the eastern to south-eastern edge there are faint indications of a fosse, a defensive or boundary ditch running alongside the bank, though it is far from pronounced. The overall form, an oval raised boundary enclosing a church site, is characteristic of early medieval Irish ecclesiastical foundations, where the circular or oval shape of the enclosing earthwork is often considered a reliable marker of early Christian, and sometimes pre-Christian, sacred ground. The associated church is recorded separately as a distinct monument. Beyond that, the documentary record is thin, and the site does not attach itself to any particular saint or founder in the surviving sources.

The absence of an obvious entrance is one of the more quietly strange aspects of this site. Early enclosures typically show a gap or causeway across the fosse, often on the western or eastern side. That no such feature has been identified here may reflect the condition of the earthwork, or it may simply be that the bank has settled and eroded enough over the centuries to obscure it. The fosse itself, visible only as a slight depression on one arc of the perimeter, suggests the boundary was once more deliberately defined than it appears today.