An enclosure of this type was a roughly circular boundary, often a bank or ditch, that defined the sacred precinct around an early medieval church and its associated settlement. At Killulta, that boundary is no longer visible as an earthwork; what survives instead is the shape of a field, a curving line that shows up on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840 and hints at a circumference of approximately eighty metres. The lough at Dromore lies to the north, and the land rolls away in rough pasture, which is precisely the kind of undisturbed terrain where such traces tend to survive, if only as geometry.

The site sits alongside the ruins of Killulta Church, catalogued in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland under the reference LI012-025001. The curving field boundary recorded on the 1840 map, read alongside Digital Globe orthoimages captured between 2011 and 2013, suggests the enclosure outline was still faintly legible from the air within living memory. More intriguing, and more opaque, is a note preserved in the National Museum's field map files, which records that on the sloping ground to the south of the church there were once "the remains of Druidical circles." The term is a Victorian one, applied loosely by nineteenth-century antiquarians to stone circles and other prehistoric monuments they associated, often without firm evidence, with druidic practice. Whether a stone circle genuinely stood here, or whether the observer was interpreting the enclosure boundary itself, is now impossible to say: no visible remains of any stone circle exist in the vicinity today.

The site lies in rough grazing land and there is no formal access or signage. The church ruins themselves provide the clearest orientation point on the ground. Because the enclosure leaves no upstanding physical trace, the most instructive way to engage with it is to study the 1840 six-inch Ordnance Survey map beforehand, available through the Historic Environment Viewer, and look for the curving field boundary that arcs to the south and west of the church. On a clear day the setting above Dromore Lough is quietly atmospheric, and the surrounding undeveloped pasture means the wider landscape has changed less than in many comparable sites. The note about "Druidical circles" is a reminder that the archive is as much a part of the record here as anything underfoot.