It is listed, it is known to exist, and it carries the quiet weight of any ancient enclosed site in the Irish landscape, but the details that would normally accompany such a monument, its dimensions, its probable date, the features visible within its boundary, remain undigitised and out of easy reach.

An enclosure, in the archaeological sense, is a broad category. It can refer to a ringfort, the remains of a defended farmstead from the early medieval period, or it might indicate something older still, a Bronze Age or Iron Age boundary whose original purpose has long since blurred into the ground. Clare is a county dense with such sites, from the limestone pavements of the Burren to the more pastoral inland parishes, and Ballyherragh sits among a landscape that has been farmed and settled continuously for millennia. Without further detail it is impossible to say what this particular enclosure looked like, who built it, or what it enclosed, though the fact of its survival into the present record suggests it left enough of a mark on the land to be noticed and recorded at some point.