Curved or roughly circular enclosing walls are often a sign that a site was once defined by an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure, a roughly circular boundary, sometimes a bank and ditch, that would have marked out sacred ground around a church or monastic settlement in the early medieval period. The shape tends to persist long after the original enclosure has gone, preserved in later field boundaries, road lines, or, as here, graveyard walls.

The site sits on a natural rise of ground, with the River Brosna passing some seventeen metres to the south and St. Bridget's holy well lying about thirty metres to the west. That clustering of features, an elevated position, a holy well dedicated to one of Ireland's most venerated saints, and a curving graveyard boundary, is the kind of configuration that scholars associate with early ecclesiastical activity. Leo Swan noted the possible enclosure in 1988, drawing attention to the wall's curve as a potential indicator. The difficulty is that the physical evidence remains ambiguous. No clear archaeological trace of an Early Christian enclosure has been confirmed at the site, which means it occupies that uncertain but genuinely interesting category of places where the landscape seems to remember something that the ground has not yet confirmed.