What marks it out is not drama but persistence, the quiet fact that a boundary dug before the Iron Age was ever heard of has left a legible outline in the landscape.

The enclosure at Ballincurra was described by Doody in 2008 as a subrectangular ditched enclosure measuring approximately 35 metres by 45 metres, with an internal bank. A ditched enclosure of this kind is exactly what it sounds like: a roughly defined area bounded by a dug ditch, with the upcast earth typically thrown inward to form a low bank. Such features served any number of purposes in prehistory, from settlement and stock management to ceremonial use, and it is not always possible to establish which from surface survey alone. What Doody noted, and what gives the site its particular interest, is that the shape itself, that subrectangular form with its internal rather than external bank, points toward a Bronze Age date, roughly 2500 to 500 BC, rather than the more commonly encountered ring-forts of the early medieval period. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in November 2013.

Ballincurra lies in County Limerick, and like many earthwork sites of this kind the enclosure is most likely visible as a low grassy earthwork within agricultural land. Features like this can be difficult to read at ground level; they often show most clearly in low winter sunlight, when long shadows pick out the slight rise of a bank or the faint depression of a silted-up ditch. If you are visiting with the intention of finding it, checking aerial imagery beforehand is a practical step, as the shape of the enclosure tends to read far more clearly from above than it does to someone standing in a field beside it. There are no visitor facilities and nothing to mark it out from the surrounding landscape, which is rather the point.