What makes it quietly odd is that it was not found by walking the ground but by scrutinising satellite imagery, specifically Digital Globe captures taken between 2011 and 2013, which revealed faint traces that ground-level observation might easily miss or dismiss as natural variation.

The site sits within an area of exposed karst, the bare, fissured limestone terrain so characteristic of County Clare, where the Burren's influence on the landscape makes it genuinely difficult to distinguish ancient human intervention from the peculiarities of the rock itself. Against that backdrop, a possible raised bank running from the south-east around to the south-west, and an irregular enclosing element visible from the west around to the north-east, trace what may once have been a complete or near-complete boundary. Enclosures of this type are a broad category in Irish archaeology, ranging from early medieval ringforts to prehistoric field boundaries, and the irregular nature of this one does not make identification straightforward. A later field boundary, running north-west to south-east, cuts directly across the monument, which at least tells us something: whatever the enclosure is, that boundary post-dates it, layering one period of land use on top of an earlier one.