Most early enclosures in Ireland tend towards the circular, the product of a compass swung from a central point, but this one is something else: irregular, roughly 78 metres east to west and 75 metres north to south, its boundary wall curving in one direction, running straight in another, and becoming almost shapeless along the northern edge. That combination of curves and straight runs, and the refusal to resolve into a tidy form, is what sets it apart.

The enclosure sits on a gentle south-facing slope within what appears to be a much older and more complex field system, one that accumulated over multiple periods of use. The wall that defines it has long since been grassed over, which is to say it survives as a low earthwork rather than standing stonework, its outline legible in aerial photography from the 2010s rather than obvious to the eye at ground level. Layered over this earlier boundary are later straight field walls running northwest to southeast and southwest to northeast, the geometry of more recent agricultural organisation cutting across the older, less regular shape beneath. That palimpsest quality, where one era of land use is scored across another, is common enough in the Irish landscape, but here the contrast between the irregular early enclosure and the disciplined straight lines of the later walls is particularly legible from above.